Mental disorders on the rise among Iraq, Afghanistan veterans

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Mental disorders on the rise among Iraq, Afghanistan veterans

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By MARILYN ELIAS
USA TODAY

As many as one out of four veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals in the past 16 months were diagnosed with mental disorders, a number that has been steadily rising, according to a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

Records show that 20 percent of eligible ex-soldiers came to VA hospitals for medical treatment between October 2003 and February 2005. Overall, 26 percent of them were diagnosed with mental disorders, say Han Kang and Kenneth Hyams of the VA.

Mental disorders on the rise among Iraq, Afghanistan veterans

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1. Maybe they were mentally ill before they joined?

You'd have to be to follow someone like Bush.

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