The Battle Continues When Soldiers Return from Iraq

Jimmy Messi was a former Iraqi American soldier who withdrew from war two years ago, but he is still the center of his life. He lived without bullets and tanks, but flew to the United States on May 15, 2003, but he is fighting against terrible nightmares, constant anxiety and depression. A 34 - year - old Messi was in the Navy for nearly 12 years before being dispatched to Iraq during the first American invasion. There, he witnessed the shooting of over thirty innocent civilians, and his idea of ​​warfare changed forever.

Approximately 64 million soldiers have been dispatched to Iraq and Afghanistan since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 and the war on terrorism began (Rand, 2008). Approximately 300,000 soldiers who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan are dealing with various mental health problems related to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But for a variety of reasons, as explained later in this article, only about 150,000 soldiers are seeking treatment (Bavolek, 2008).

Stress-related symptoms According to Kevin Kelly, a foreign surgeon, three months after three returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, three out of ten soldiers are "stress related mental health" such as anxiety and depression Problem ". Lack of nightmares, anger, concentration. It is reported that only a small part of the unknown was diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder. During the health assessment after deployment from January to August 2005, soldiers may be aware of the tension between the couple, suicidal ideation / emotion, nightmares and flashbacks, that they may lose control or hurt others I admitted. In these surveys, 28% of the 193,000 returnees were aware of mental health based on data from the Army Health Promotion Preventive Medical Center (Table 1).

In the Mogadishu war, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War, Wat chose non-imaginary stories experienced by soldiers. This text includes Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carry", a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories about his service in Vietnam, and the aftermath of the soldier group, "Kansas soldier records" It is. The 1997 series "Black Hawk Fall" which I fought after I finished my mission in Iraq and then inquired of Philadelphia became a book and a movie.