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To: Road Walker who wrote (192780)	7/1/2004 11:59:43 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1577020

>It will be interesting to hear his thinking after he returns. There is a survey out (may have been posted, I've been too busy to read the thread) that 17% of folks returning from Iraq have a mental illness. It's gonna be a while -- he's been told he's going to be there for a year and a half. I feel awful for his wife; they just got married. -Z

To: Road Walker who wrote (192780)	7/1/2004 12:05:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577020

re: Last night, I spent some time with a friend who's getting shipped to Iraq in September. It will be interesting to hear his thinking after he returns. There is a survey out (may have been posted, I've been too busy to read the thread) that 17% of folks returning from Iraq have a mental illness. An unknown aspect of wars is number of soldiers whose lives are ruined by the experience. It's probably more than those that are killed or wounded. I suspect its both physiological as well as mental. Some MDs are just beginning to realize that prolonged bouts of stress can cause chronic hyperventilation and trigger the fight or fight syndrome. F or F is our body's response to danger and puts us through a whole bunch of physiological changes in order to prepare us for the expected danger. In addition, psychologically, we become more paranoid and alert. F or F is supposed to be a temporary phenomenon......lasting only a few minutes or until the danger is over. However, prolonged stress can keep us in that place for much longer. With each war, a new disease is coined that never seems to be reoccurring. I suspect that between the chronic hyperventilation and the F or F, the guys are feeling pretty bad when they came back. There are limitations as to how much stress humans can sustain for prolong periods of time. A lot more needs to be studied on this topic.........I suspect it will have much greater importance in the future. ted