1 in 6 Iraq Veterans Is Found to Suffer Stress-Related Disorder: "Almost 17 percent of those who fought in Iraq reported symptoms of major depression, severe anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder, compared with about 11 percent of the troops who served in Afghanistan.
The rates were slightly higher than those found among soldiers in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and lower than the rates in Vietnam veterans. But mental health studies of soldiers in those earlier conflicts were carried out years � in the case of Vietnam, decades � after the troops returned home. The new study examined soldiers before deployment and within three to four months after they returned."
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