Psychologists say they have treated hundreds of survivors of the 2005 London bombings for post-traumatic stress disorder.
PTSD‘London bomb stress’ recognisedWednesday, March 10th, 2010The mental scars of soldiersThursday, February 25th, 2010Last week in the US an army sergeant was accused of waterboarding his own four-year-old daughter after she refused to recite her ABCs. This story emerged as London’s Guardian newspaper reported that during a time of critical stress for military hospitals, there was little concrete information about soldiers’ mental health. Magnetic activity in brain ‘diagnoses stress disorderFriday, January 22nd, 2010A one-minute test appears to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder with an accuracy of 90%. More IAPT sites added to services pageWednesday, December 2nd, 2009Sutton and Merton and Tower Hamlets have submitted their IAPT service details and details are now viewable on our services map. New Services Added to WfW MapFriday, November 20th, 2009Wave 2 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) sites went live last month in London and as they establish themselves they are sending us information about their services so we can update the services map. To date 15 PCTs have IAPT services, these are:
Homecomings fit for heroes? The plight of Britain’s veteransMonday, November 16th, 2009The sombre procession of six coffins, draped in Union flags, along the streets of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire on Tuesday was yet another reminder of the human cost of the war in Afghanistan. Each contained the body of a British soldier killed there the previous week Returning troops hit by alcohol abuse, depressionFriday, October 30th, 2009LONDON (Reuters) – Alcohol abuse and depression are common among British troops returning from conflict deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan but post traumatic stress is less of a problem than previously thought, researchers said on Friday Revealed: the hidden army in UK prisonsFriday, September 25th, 2009The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population. Afghanistan’s hidden toll: Troops invalided out triple in three yearsWednesday, September 2nd, 2009An article about the effect that the conflict in Afghanistan is having on troops mental health ‘British troops face risk of massive mental health problems’Thursday, August 27th, 2009An article about the mental health problems faced by British troops British soldiers are faced with massive mental health problems due to drastic working conditions and out of date support techniques, a former Special Air Service soldier has revealed.
Ex-trooper Bob Paxman, 41, has broken the SAS vow of silence to reveal the risk soldiers face fighting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). |
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