Read more PTSD stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15298/ptsd.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:11:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73661/stop-making-excuses-for-hasan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCommentators are working overtime to explain away the Fort Hood shootings as a personal breakdown rather than what it obviously was, three conservative columnists argue today: a terrorist assault by an Islamic extremist. The explanation for Major Hasan's actions should be crystal clear to anybody not afraid of offending Muslim...http://www.newser.com/story/73661/stop-making-excuses-for-hasan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 7:11:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73486/blame-vicarious-ptsd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Todd Essig learned the Fort Hood shooter “was an Army psychiatrist who treats post traumatic stress disorder, himself on the cusp of deployment, I thought, ‘I’m not surprised.’” Why? Because there is a documented transfer of trauma disorders from sufferers to caregivers, dubbed “vicarious traumatization.” For some who...http://www.newser.com/story/73486/blame-vicarious-ptsd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 10:03:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73447/armys-stress-most-obvious-at-fort-hood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFort Hood has had more suicides than any other US Army facility since the start of the Iraq war, and while Nidal Hasan, the man officials say is responsible for yesterday's massacre, likely had unique motivations, he was perhaps only the most troubled member of a volunteer force buckling under...http://www.newser.com/story/73447/armys-stress-most-obvious-at-fort-hood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 6:16:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71733/injured-vets-seeking-closure-return-to-iraq.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe military has been aiding injured veterans to return to Iraq to help them find closure and assure them that their sacrifices were worth it. Operation Proper Exit—believed to be the first such program to facilitate vets' return to a battlefield while a war is still in progress—has...http://www.newser.com/story/71733/injured-vets-seeking-closure-return-to-iraq.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 4:58:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71077/dc-snipers-ex-rampage-was-scheme-to-kill-me.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe ex-wife of convicted Beltway Sniper John Muhammad was the ultimate target of his murderous 2002 DC rampage that killed 10 people. Mildred Muhammad says her ex intended to pass off her murder as the work of a madman and regain custody of their three children. She got wise to...http://www.newser.com/story/71077/dc-snipers-ex-rampage-was-scheme-to-kill-me.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 13:17:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70513/war-games-help-vets-cope-with-ptsd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUsing realistic war games to re-create the sights, sounds, and even smells of combat is helping veterans overcome post-traumatic stress disorder in several clinical trials. Games like Virtual Iraq —modeled on Full Spectrum Warrior —help psychologists bring patients back to traumatic events and break down mental barriers. Researchers say the...http://www.newser.com/story/70513/war-games-help-vets-cope-with-ptsd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 9:02:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64130/dogs-trained-to-heal-iraq-vets-mental-scars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe golden retriever nuzzles his master as though he wants a treat, trots into the kitchen, and waits patiently. His master walks over and, under the pet’s watchful gaze, takes a series of pills. The dog wags his tail with approval. He is a psychiatric-service dog, part of a new...http://www.newser.com/story/64130/dogs-trained-to-heal-iraq-vets-mental-scars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 11 Jul 2009 10:28:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59548/shrinks-single-out-next-ptsd-bitterness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome psychiatrists believe embitterment is so common and so destructive that it should be classed as a mental illness, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sufferers are described as people who have worked hard at something like a job or relationship, only to be transformed into angry, pessimistic, brooding individuals consumed...http://www.newser.com/story/59548/shrinks-single-out-next-ptsd-bitterness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 8:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56546/lets-help-vets-avoid-extremist-urge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe recent Homeland Security report detailing right-wing extremist recruitment of veterans is “true, true, true,” Charles M. Blow writes in the New York Times . But “conservatives reacted by throwing a knee-jerk hissy fit,” suggesting that vets “were being vilified by a partisan document.” Instead of playing politics, writes Blow, we...http://www.newser.com/story/56546/lets-help-vets-avoid-extremist-urge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CDT