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Thread #91676   Message #1747147
Posted By: ard mhacha
25-May-06 - 05:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Film: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Subject: RE: BS: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
This news just released from a Kigs College Cambridge study shows that some 25% of part-time recruits and 19% of regular British soldiers returning from Iraq have mental health problems.

Post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]was one of the mental conditions that was found to be recurring in these soldiers.
Former soldier turned author Alistair Renwick documented some of the Northern Ireland cases of PTSD in his book Hidden Wounds. In one case soldier Jimmy Johnson suffereing from PTSD beat a man to death.

He was imprisoned in 1974 but at that time his condition was not diagnosed. He came out in 1983 and 18 months after his release killed another man.

Johnson has done much from inside prison to raise the question of lack of treatment for PTSD.
For too long those at the British MOD have been content to kick the question of mental illness under the carpet.

Given that the level of prisoners suffering from mental health disorder has been put as high as 70% surely a detailed breakdown of service personnell should be made a priority.

As I keep telling you these mental cases having done their bit for Queen and country return to haunt YOUR streets, you are welcome to them.