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Much as with men, the women seeing active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeing loads of post-combat PTSD, according to the New York Times.

“Never before has this country seen so many women paralyzed by the psychological scars of combat. As of June 2008, 19,084 female veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan had received diagnoses of mental disorders from the Department of Veterans Affairs, including 8,454 women with a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress — and this number does not include troops still enlisted, or those who have never used the V.A. system.”

I appreciate their service and wish them well. While I’m wishing, I wish someone would come up with a safe, effective treatment for post-combat PTSD because what we are using now certainly isn’t working well.

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