Sunday, November 14, 2004

Unseen Wounds

"I'm taking enough drugs to sedate an elephant, and I still wake up dreaming about it. I wish I had just freaking died over there."

The above is from this depressing
article about what they are saying is an emerging mental health crises affecting 1 in 6 of our soldiers. People tend to focus on the number of dead, and forget about all those who are wounded not just physically, but mentally as well.

1 comment:

Alexander Wolfe said...

Although we're no longer in the habit of court martialling soldiers with PTSD, we certainly have a long way to go before we can even begin to handle the psychic wounds some of the soldiers experience...if they can be handled at all, actually.