Pg. 6 8/31/10
LONG ROAD HOME
By Leonor Vivanco
By Leonor Vivanco
Some troops find difficult to re-adapt to their old lives, coming back from the war. These cases are in the spotlight of Obama president who is going to speech about America’s wars, remarking about cease combat operations in Iraq. This month the amount of troops reduce considerably in consequence of the post trauma after war.
Clearly example the cases of Katherine West 28, Paul Loretto 29, Weston Polaski 27, Glen Johnson 49, Allisa and Mark Barnhost. All of them have something in common the hard process to come back to their ‘normal’ lives after war. Suffering of PTSD (despite being diagnosed) related with stress, anxiety, nightmares, insomnia, unable to be in crowds, failure to communicate, etc. also there are problems of new adaptation with friend, family, society in general also these veterans have problems making new friends or new relationships, even with their family. They can’t find enough support from them, because for someone who have never been in a war is hard to understand those who spent months in Iraq or Korea.
There is hope for all the veterans in a program called Strong Bonds which help veterans or people related with them to reconnect to a normal life. This program is managed for people, who used to have the same problem, helping to improve marriages and communication using mental health counseling.
This is a real problem which needs to be attended with more programs and organization that can help veterans to be re-inserted to the society trying to avoid this post trauma after war, They left their normal style lives to serve this country. Is sad to see that some of them are unable to communicate with people, even with their friends because most of the cases Veteran’s friends are marriage, have kids, have a degree, a job, etc. most of them come back to school where is still being difficult because most of the students are in their early 20’s. We need to recognize all the effort of these veterans that are still fighting but this time for different porpoises.
Clearly example the cases of Katherine West 28, Paul Loretto 29, Weston Polaski 27, Glen Johnson 49, Allisa and Mark Barnhost. All of them have something in common the hard process to come back to their ‘normal’ lives after war. Suffering of PTSD (despite being diagnosed) related with stress, anxiety, nightmares, insomnia, unable to be in crowds, failure to communicate, etc. also there are problems of new adaptation with friend, family, society in general also these veterans have problems making new friends or new relationships, even with their family. They can’t find enough support from them, because for someone who have never been in a war is hard to understand those who spent months in Iraq or Korea.
There is hope for all the veterans in a program called Strong Bonds which help veterans or people related with them to reconnect to a normal life. This program is managed for people, who used to have the same problem, helping to improve marriages and communication using mental health counseling.
This is a real problem which needs to be attended with more programs and organization that can help veterans to be re-inserted to the society trying to avoid this post trauma after war, They left their normal style lives to serve this country. Is sad to see that some of them are unable to communicate with people, even with their friends because most of the cases Veteran’s friends are marriage, have kids, have a degree, a job, etc. most of them come back to school where is still being difficult because most of the students are in their early 20’s. We need to recognize all the effort of these veterans that are still fighting but this time for different porpoises.
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