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Mental Health in the Military
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Mental Health in the Military
Are there sufficient resources?
CRITICS OF GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
- slow processing of cases and requests
- not efficient process
- lack of funds
SO WHAT STOPS VETERANS?
- Stigma: "members of the group consider such people [the members that seek treatment] inferior, and this differentiation may result in the discrediting or a loss of status"
- macrosocial level vs. microsocial level
REFERENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER
- established to provide community-based treatment
- multiple VA hospitals around the country
- constantly improving continuity and quality of care
- extreme rage responses resulting in harm either violent actions or words
- often misdiagnosed
- can lead to suicidal thoughts/actions
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
- Department of Veterans Affairs. (2014). Department of Veterans Affairs FY 2014-2020 Strategic Plan.
- Harvard Medical School. (2011). Treating intermittent explosive disorder. Harvard Health Publications. Retrieved from http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/treating-intermittent-explosive-disorder
- Mayo Clinic Staff. (2014). Diseases and conditions: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/basics/definition/con-20022540
- Rosenheck, R.A., & Fontana, A.F. (November, 2007). Recent trends in VA treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental disorders. Health affairs, Volume 26 (no. 6). Retrieved from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/26/6/1720.full
- Shane, L. III. (2016, July 10). VA disability backlog tops 70,000—7 months after it was
- supposed to be zero. Military times. Retrieved from http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/07/10/va-disability-claims-backlog-veterans-affairs/86862716/
- The National Institute of Mental Health. (October, 2016). Depression. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml#part_145398
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs. (April, 2014). Study explores reasons why veterans seek—or don’t seek—PTSD care. Washington, DC: Office of Research and Development.
- Willingham, V. (March, 2014). Study: rates of many mental disorders much higher in soldiers than in civilians. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/03/health/jama-military-mental-health/
- malfunction of the stress/danger response
- can occur after seeing or experiencing traumatic events
- flashbacks, avoidance, autonomic arousal
- risk of suicidal thoughts/actions
DEPRESSION
- Symptoms: hopelessness, persistent sadness, decreased energy, physical aches and pains, extreme guilt, etc.
- 2 week rule
- risk of suicidal thoughts/actions
THE PROBLEM AT HAND
- 5,500 active duty, non-deployed soldiers tested
- 25% (1,375) have one mental illness
- 11% (605) have more than one mental illness
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