post-traumatic stress disorder

Army suicides soar past 2008's pace Army suicides soar past 2008's pace

The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to Salon shows soldiers committing suicide at a record-setting pace. Is combat stress the reason?
By Mark Benjamin May 12, 2009

  • My wife thinks I'm cheating on her -- but I'm not!

    She's a war vet with post-traumatic stress, and I'm overseas with the Navy. She found a condom in my old deployment bag ... but it was a joke condom!
    October 22, 2007

  • The killing of Jamie Dean

    Police in rural Maryland staged a military stakeout and shot a troubled Army vet. As his family plans to sue, they are asking how a soldier being treated for PTSD could be shipped to Iraq.
    By Julia Dahl September 5, 2007

  • One U.S. soldier who must be counted

    Veterans of the Iraq war, including heroic Army Cpl. Frank Sandoval, are dying here in America too.
    By L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr. June 22, 2007

  • Getting blown up, again and again

    U.S. soldiers traumatized by Iraq are combating PTSD with a virtual reality treatment that plunges them back into the war zone.
    By Eilene Zimmerman May 16, 2007

  • More on women soldiers, rape and Iraq

    The New York Times mag on the war's disturbing rape-report statistics and the PTSD gripping many female veterans once they return home.
    By Page Rockwell March 19, 2007

  • More on Walter Reed

    The Washington Post's series on the poor conditions for hospitalized Iraq war veterans explores a subject very familiar to Salon readers.
    By Joan Walsh February 20, 2007

  • Post-traumatic futility disorder

    Disillusionment with war is an overlooked psychological liability on the battlefield, experts say -- and could lead to higher rates of PTSD among U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
    By Mark Benjamin December 21, 2006

  • Losing their minds

    More U.S. soldiers than ever are sustaining serious brain injuries in Iraq. But a significant number of them are being misdiagnosed, forced to wait for treatment or even being called liars by the Army.
    By Mark Benjamin January 5, 2006

  • A good day for veterans

    The V.A. canceled its controversial plan Thursday to review vets who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    By Mark Benjamin November 11, 2005

  • Sticker shock over shell shock

    The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
    By Mark Benjamin August 9, 2005

  • Behind the walls of Ward 54

    They're overmedicated, forced to talk about their mothers instead of Iraq, and have to fight for disability pay. Traumatized combat vets say the Army is failing them, and after a year following more than a dozen soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital, I believe them.
    By Mark Benjamin February 18, 2005

  • "Everyone here has post-traumatic stress"

    As the horror hits home in Sri Lanka, there are too many relief workers and not enough stress counselors.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 20, 2005

  • "My heart is back"

    Talk therapy only increases the suffering for some trauma victims -- but alternative treatments offer new hope.
    By Lynn Harris December 8, 2004

  • My husband was assaulted by frat boys and I failed to protect him

    Now my life is hell, and I feel like I'm failing at everything.
    By Cary Tennis November 17, 2004

  • One in 6 soldiers from Iraq war suffer PTSD

    By Stephen W. Stromberg July 1, 2004
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