More UK veterans seeking PTSD cure
A top armed forces charity says the mental health problems among military personnel have risen 26 percent over the past year.
The charity Combat Stress which supports veterans with mental health issue said in a report that six veterans per day seek post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) help. According to the charity, the increase is mainly accounted for by a marked rise in those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan seeking help.
Some 2,264 personnel have requested treatment with three-quarters said to be suffering from PTSD.
Experts blame the military policy of the government for the lingering problem in UK society.
“Theres is an immediate question which is the way in which the army trains its people, and the way in which they’re increasingly using very modern weapons which don’t perhaps necessarily mean that they’re always in immediate danger but that means very often they reflect on their experience after. This is one reason they are getting these kinds of illnesses because it suddenly comes unto them exactly what they have been doing,” Lindsey German from Stop the War Coalition in UK told Press TV.
She referred to the consequences of war saying:”The impacts of war has two major consequences, one is spread of terrorism and the bombings that we’ve seen the shootings in France and those sorts of things.”
“These in my opinion are very closely connected to the war and of course have a bad effect on politics in this country, I think more widely there is a general sense that the war is not only very costly financially for us, but it’s very costly politically, and socially it leads to these soldiers who are taken out of a normal situation and put into a situation where they’re told to have an enemy they have to kill and they suffer for many years after,” she said.
German blamed the coalition government for its general commitments to war saying war ruins all aspects of life in Britain.
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