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While a wide variety of events can trigger what's called post-traumatic stress disorder, this PTSD blog focuses solely on the combat-related variety. As a new generation of warriors returns to civilian life and seeks out resources, PTSD Combat is here to help.

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About PTSD Combat

This is the online journal of Ilona Meagher, veteran's daughter and author of Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops. You are invited to read my bio and stay connected via the networks to the right.

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• The War List: OEF/OIF Stats
• Veteran Filing a PTSD Claim? Here's Help...
• PTSD Stats, WWII to Iraq
• OEF/OIF Veteran Suicide Toll: Nearly 15% of Overall U.S. Military Casualties Result from Suicide
• Combat Stress/PTSD: What are the Symptoms?
• DSM's Definition for PTSD
• Emergency Helpline Phone Numbers, Places to Turn, and Reintegration Resources

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Considerable Quotes

"The first shamans earned their keep in primitave societies by providing explanations and rituals that enabled man to deal with his environment and his personal anguish. Early man, no less than we, dealt with forces that he could not understand or control, and he attempted to come to grips with his vulnerablity by trying to bring order to his universe." -- Richard Gabriel in No More Heroes

"War stories end when the battle is over or when the soldier comes home. In real life, there are no moments amid smoldering hilltops for tranquil introspection. When the war is over, you pick up your gear, walk down the hill and back into the world." -- OIF vet John Crawford in The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

"After wars' end, soldiers once again become civilians and return to their families to try to pick up where they left off. It is this process of readjustment that has more often than not been ignored by society. -- Major Robert H. Stretch, Ph.D in Textbook of Military Medicine: Vol. 6 Combat Stress

Upcoming Events

Ilona's events are listed in green and found here.

October 22-November 15, 2009 in Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Art Museum hosts War, Art, & the Veteran, a display of artworks created by combat veterans.

November 5-11, 2009 in DeKalb, IL - Northern Illinois University Veterans Club hosts a number of Veterans Day events, including its first Veterans Club Community Roundtable and its own Vet Art Project. See Ilona's events and facebook events page for more.

November 11, 2009 Nationwide - Veterans Day 2009, selection of events and promotions.

November 25, 2009 in Chicago, IL - Vet Art Project program at the Chicago Cultural Center. See schedule [pdf] for more.

December 9, 2009 in Chicago, IL - Vet Art Project program at the Chicago Cultural Center. See schedule [pdf] for more.

December 6-5, 2009 in Warwick, UK - MindGrad 2009 Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind. Call for papers deadline: Sept. 1 | Registration.

Spring, 2010 in Bethesda, MD - Uniformed Services University 5th Annual Amygdala, Stress and PTSD Conference, details TBA.

July 10-15, 2010 in Honolulu, HI - International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD).

More military conferences.

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