PTSD

Whether combat or peacekeeping, PTSD impacts veterans' well-being 10/01/08. Deployed peacekeeping veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have significant impairments in health-related quality of life according to research by Dr. J. Donald Richardson of the University of Western Ontario and his co-investigators. The research, published this month in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, found anxiety disorders such as PTSD are associated with impaired emotional well-being, and this applies just as much to peacekeeping veterans as to combat veterans. University of Western Ontario via Eurekalert!