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Honest Talk About Brain Disorders

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(COMMONLY CALLED “MENTAL ILLNESS)

“Mental “ illnesses are biologically-based brain disorders.

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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Military

An article in the New York Times by Iraq war veteran Michael Jernigan offers a significant educational tool for understanding the transition into society that returning veterans face. [Website Ed.]

October 25, 2009, 9:00 pm

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he Minefield at Home
By Michael Jernigan
Katherine Streeter

In August 2004, while on patrol with my Marine unit in Mahmudiya, Iraq, I was severely wounded by a roadside bomb. My wounds included a crushed skull and right hand, traumatic brain injury and the loss of both my eyes.

I am not alone. In the past eight years, many of the 35,000 American soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home. But many of us have also returned with deep emotional wounds, and those are harder to see.

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Wounded Warrior Care

News Story

Monday, June 01, 2009

By Sandra Basu | U.S. Medicine, June 2009
Used with permission from U.S. Medicine

More support for the family caregivers of those injured in war is needed, a panel of wounded servicemembers and family memb

ers told Congress. Dealing with severe injury and trauma is not easy,” Army Lt. Col. Gregory Gadson, an amputee told a Senate subcommittee. “When we consider the myriad of injuries, as well as the unfamiliarity a typical family has in dealing with an injured servicemember, it is easy to understand how difficult a task it is for recovery.”

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Resource Guide for Wounded Warriors and Families

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