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2008-07-08 Home Front: WoT

The sad saga of a soldier from Long Island

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Posted by Steve White 2008-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like his condition was complex, stress + chemical use to relieve the stress = cell damage accompanied by chemical use. Is there a specialty for dealing with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and the associated complexities of this illness????

Posted by a yankee 2008-07-08 01:06|| 2008-07-08 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 the 31-year-old collapsed and died after abusing a computer cleaner aerosol.

Ew. What a way to go.

Posted by gromky 2008-07-08 01:34|| 2008-07-08 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like the poor guy had several things working against him, maybe even latent mental illness. That's too bad, its difficult to force help on a person though.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-08 10:25|| 2008-07-08 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Need to get guys like that better help. Problem is they pretty often refuse it.

Combat exposes everything you have, and for some people, they have flaws that once exposed, cannot be dealt with, and may prove fatal.

Its actually a rare enough occurrence (PTSD->death) these days that it shows the system is doing a decent job - not fantastic, but certainly better than before.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-08 10:55|| 2008-07-08 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The lifetime risk for schizophrenia alone is 7.2 per 1000 people. And PTSD, a disease in itself, can exaggerate symptoms of other mental illness as well. It will make the paranoid more so, as well as the obsessive/compulsive, the neurotic, the manic-depressive and the bi-polar.

And the most common mental illness, depression, is strongly impacted by stress.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-08 20:31|| 2008-07-08 20:31|| Front Page Top

#6 he had a lot of issues, and we (via our gov't) should make sure that the next of kin and kids are well-taken care of, regardless. Either it was undiagnosed, or a result of deployment. What less should we do? My prayers to his soul and the family and friends. Sounds like a horror-show nobody should go through

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-08 21:03|| 2008-07-08 21:03|| Front Page Top

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