PhD/PsyD panic disorder, major depression, anxiety disorder, brief psychotic disorder, tbi, ptsd?

[calimich]

I think this might qualify for the /awfuleverything subreddit. The circumstances sound terrible for everyone, obviously the soldiers killing and being killed, their families and communities, the folks trying to help. Long distance remote artillery fire can't be far away.

A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon

Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand what was wrong.

www.nytimes.com

A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon

Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand what was wrong.

web.archive.org

https://archive.ph/HifjW

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[WisNeuro]

Definitely heartbreaking to read. Unfortunately, the military/VA is the perfect system for this to emerge in. You have a pretty low base rate, relatively speaking population, exposed to a very low baserate condition, put in a system that has a lot of noise to signal ratio when it comes to odd and noncredible symptom reporting. There has been some blast research out there, but that's usually isolated or handful of incidents, and not this 4 to 5 figure exposure level incidents, so we're really in uncharted territory.

 

[PsyDr]

Remember when someone on a listserv disclosed that the DoD established that "tbi" was going to be the "signature injury" ... before the wars kicked off.

PsyDr remembers.

Personally, I think that the Las Vegas research in boxing, with the accelerometer, is going to be the most valid. Of course, there is some selection bias. "Hey, wanna get hit in the head for fun? Sure!"