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My friend Davey Brinn
The first time I remember his face it had a smile directed toward me and I smiled back. From then on, when we saw each other we smiled. By Ken Wachsberger | The Rag Blog | October 16, 2014 My … Continue reading
METRO | GI coffeehouse, Iraq vets respond to latest Fort Hood tragedy
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 7, 2014 KILLEEN — When Spec. Ivan A. Lopez opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood on April 2, he killed four people and wounded 16 more. He was one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Fort Hood, Ft. Hood Shootings, Gun Violence, Iraq, IVAW, Malachi Muncy, Mental Health, Metro Bloggers, PTSD, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Military, Under the Hood, Veterans
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SPORT / Dave Zirin : The Rockets’ Royce White Is Rebel with a Cause
The Houston Rockets’ Royce White. Image from Hoopspeak.com. Mental health revolutionary:The Houston Rockets’ Royce White White has become a crusader for change, calling out the NBA for disregarding mental illness and treating him like ‘a commodity.’ By Dave Zirin | … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety Disorder, Basketball, Dave Zirin, Houston Rockets, Mental Health, NBA, Royce White, Sports
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Eric Newhouse : Half of Returning Warriors are Wounded
Photo by RunItsTheFuz / Flickr / Truthout.Half of vets returning from Iraq andAfghanistan need medical attention By Eric Newhouse / Truthout / November 16, 2011 More than half of America’s former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Newhouse, Mental Health, Military, Veterans, Veterans Affairs
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Jim Turpin : Military Suicides, PTSD at All-Time High
Under the Hood Café near Ft. Hood in Killeen Texas is a place where active duty GIs and veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan can discuss the debilitating effects of war. Photo from Under the Hood / Flickr.Texas’ Fort Hood sets … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, Fort Hood, Jim Turpin, Mental Health, PTSD, Suicide, U.S. Military, Under the Hood
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Dahr Jamail : Eric Jasinski, the Army, and PTSD
Eric Jasinski at benefit for Under the Hood Cafe, May 24, 2010. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Ft. Hood’s Eric Jasinski:PTSD soldier punished by army Jasinski’s case is representative of a growing number of soldiers returning from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, Dahr Jamail, Eric Jasinski, Fort Hood, Mental Health, PTSD, U.S. Military
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PTSD and the Military : Soldiers Go AWOL to Get Help
Photo illustration by Jennifer Clampet / USAG Wiesbaden Public Affairs.Military health care inadequate:GI’s go AWOL for PTSD treatmentBy Dahr Jamail / December 13, 2009 MARFA, Texas — With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan … Continue reading
Harm’s Way : Escalation and the GI Suicide Crisis
Mental health and the suicide rate:Sending soldiers into harm’s way By Michael Anthony / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009 President Obama recently stated that sending more troops into harm’s way in Afghanistan is a solemn decision — one … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, GI's, Iraq Veterans, Mental Health, Michael Anthony, Suicide, U.S. Military, Veterans, Veterans Administration
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Special Delivery : Ft. Hood GI Gives Letter to Obama
Pfc. Michael Kern. Photo from Cynthia Thomas / Under the Hood Cafe.Stopping by the barracks:GI Michael Kern hands Obama IVAW letter What happened at Fort Hood has made it abundantly clear that the military mental health system, and our soldiers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Anti-War GIs, Fort Hood, Iraq Veterans, IVAW, Mental Health, Military, PTSD, Victor Agosto
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Another Good Reason to Ban War: Troops’ Children Suffer
Mental Health Problems Growing for Troops’ KidsJuly 7, 2009 Children of U.S. military troops sought outpatient mental health care 2 million times last year, double the number at the start of the Iraq war, and there was also an alarming … Continue reading
Texas : Mental Health Care a Disgrace
Farhat Chishty, right, spends time with her mentally retarded son Haseeb Chishty at Denton State School in Denton, Texas, Jan. 16, 2008. In 2002 Haseeb nearly died after a beating by a care worker and is now confined to a … Continue reading
Is Surfing the Internet Altering your Brain?
A functional MRI brain scan shows how searching the Internet dramatically engages brain neural networks (in red). The image on the left displays brain activity while reading a book; the image on the right displays activity while engaging in an … Continue reading
