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Veterans may have been using work to push away the symptoms of PTSD ... The report quotes clinical psychologist Dr. Lynn Bernstein, who runs therapy groups specifically for Vietnam vets and ...
and how he overcame his biggest battle with PTSD — all while reaching his American dream. The Purple Heart recipient served as a Marine in the Vietnam War, fulfilling his duty as a rifleman in ...
Four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, 11 percent of its U.S. veterans continue to have post-traumatic stress disorder, according to an update of a landmark study conducted in the 1980s.
Scientists estimate that more than 283,000 Vietnam veterans — men and a few hundred women now beyond the age of retirement — still suffer post-traumatic stress disorder from their war ...
Philip Paolini served four years in the Vietnam War as a marine. In the years since then, he's faced a number of hardships, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse and ...
PTSD has long been associated with early death, so researchers were not surprised to find that among veterans who deployed to Vietnam, those who had the disorder in the 1980s were twice as likely ...
PTSD from any cause, including for veterans who didn’t fight in the war zone, afflicted about 12 percent of men and 8.5 percent of women, the researchers found. Based on this representative ...
The research, one of the longest observational studies of Vietnam veterans to date, finds that PTSD and combat exposure are strongly linked to cardiovascular disease and chronic illnesses ...
Many veterans who served in the Vietnam War still have war-zone-related post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry. The researchers, led by Dr. Charles R.
Nearly one in five Vietnam veterans suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — and nearly one in 10 was still suffering 11 to 12 years after the war, a new study finds. That's fewer PTSD ...
Male twin Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were more than twice as likely as those without PTSD to develop heart disease during a 13-year period, according to a new study.