Underestimating the True Prevalence of War Stress Injury in the Military
Category: WELLNESS
Media and official reports on prevalence rates of military war stress injury have focused almost exclusively on escalating rates of well-known war stress injuries such as PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the true impact from war trauma cannot be reduced to a handful of psychiatric diagnoses, as some may want.
By Mark C. Russell, Ph.D., ABPP, Contributor
Retired U.S. Navy Commander, Military Clinical Psychologist, 2012-02-05