Obama: More post-traumatic stress help for our Vets - Polidicks

[QUOTE]WASHINGTON – The government is taking what President Barack Obama calls "a long overdue step" to aid veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, making it easier for them to receive federal benefits. The changes that Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki will announce Monday fulfill "a solemn responsibility to provide our veterans and wounded warriors with the care and benefits they've earned when they come home," Obama said in his weekly radio and online address Saturday. The new rules will apply not only to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but also those who served in previous conflicts. No longer will veterans have to prove what caused their illness. Instead, they would have to show that the conditions surrounding the time and place of their service could have contributed to their illness. "I don't think our troops on the battlefield should have to take notes to keep for a claims application," the president said. "And I've met enough veterans to know that you don't have to engage in a firefight to endure the trauma of war." Veterans advocates and some lawmakers have argued that it sometimes could be impossible for veterans to find records of a firefight or bomb blast. They also have contended that the old rules ignored other causes of PTSD, such as fearing a traumatic event even if it doesn't occur. That could discriminate against female troops prohibited from serving on front lines and against other service members who don't experience combat directly. "This is a long overdue step," Obama said. "It's a step that proves America will always be here for our veterans, just as they've been there for us. We won't let them down. We take care of our own." A study last year by the RAND Corp. think tank estimated that nearly 20 percent of returning veterans, or 300,000, have symptoms of PTSD or major depression. A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs said the agency doesn't expect the number of veterans receiving benefits for PTSD to rise dramatically, as most veterans with legitimate applications for benefits do eventually get claims. The goal is simply to make the claims process less cumbersome and time-consuming, said the official, who would speak only on condition of anonymity ahead of the VA's announcement.[/QUOTE] [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_veterans[/url] funny how just a couple days ago my grandpa was bitching about how Obama would never do anything like this

Good, our vets deserved better then what they were getting.

Yeah? Well your grandpa was WRONG!

[QUOTE=Adsone;23305328]Yeah? Well your grandpa was WRONG![/QUOTE] [img]http://files.myopera.com/Sherlock-holmes/albums/750398/arthur-conan-doyle-sherlock-holmes.jpg[/img]

Good. Something like this way long overdue.

I wanted to bump this because I think this is something that should have been done long ago. I had my radio on some random station and they were talking about the treatment of PTSD and listened while I fell asleep.Apparently there was no form of therapy, and if there was, it was limited. Wish I remember the station. Anyways, im very glad he jumped on this. Rated hearts.

Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL]

[QUOTE=RBM11;23320171]Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL][/QUOTE] Republicans/conservatives being idiots as usual

[QUOTE=RBM11;23320171]Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL][/QUOTE] I have yet to find a good article on yahoo were the commentors aren't idiots.

I honestly thought that was about veternarians who have witnessed a tragic animal death before i read the story.

The yahoo comments don't even know what the definition of veteran is. They think it's people still in the killzone....

[QUOTE=RBM11;23320171]Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL][/QUOTE] These people are going to vote. We're fucked.

[quote]Obama says too much. Obama should just shut up ! I would like to thank the AP for their daily "Obama says" Story.[/quote] My god, what primordial ooze are these creatures secreting out of?

This is good, they need more help, the current treatment of PTSD troops is far too ineffective.

That's really good news, my sister has post-traumatic stress because of her tour in Iraq.

[QUOTE=Elcor;23319815]I wanted to bump this because I think this is something that should have been done long ago. I had my radio on some random station and they were talking about the treatment of PTSD and listened while I fell asleep.Apparently there was no form of therapy, and if there was, it was limited. Wish I remember the station. Anyways, im very glad he jumped on this. Rated hearts.[/QUOTE] There is no cure for PTS, they can get past it and hide it, but they can't get rid of it.

[quote] Obama is only worried he's gonna' get "offed" by one of them. And, by the way, "Slick", what ya gonna' do about your oil spill? Not that you're tryin' to change the subject or anything.[/quote] This makes me almost wish there was no such thing as freedom of speech. [editline]08:44AM[/editline] [quote]obuma, the deadliest president in the history of war, wants the public to do his job. Our vets are coming home to political vices like obuma and his dumocrap goons who blame everybody but themselves. The feds need to do their job. The public and families have been with our soldiers and obuma needs to step up and start doing his job. Always blaming somebody.[/quote] Holy shit yo.

[QUOTE=teeheeV2;23324448]There is no cure for PTS, they can get past it and hide it, but they can't get rid of it.[/QUOTE] The drug ecstasy has been showing promising returns of long term relief of PTSD.

[QUOTE=RBM11;23320171]Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL][/QUOTE] Wow. I would facepalm this situation, but, I don't want to get banned.

[QUOTE=JDK721v2;23320219]Republicans/conservatives being idiots as usual[/QUOTE] Why are there so many in the Yahoo comments though, is Yahoo the only word they know how to spell.

sounds like socialism to me [editline]12:52AM[/editline] [QUOTE=GhostSonic;23320240]I have yet to find a good article on yahoo were the commentors aren't idiots.[/QUOTE] aolnews is just as bad

Its about time, I was discharged for PTSD. All they did was give me my release papers and an appointed military therapist. That shit wasn't the greatest, especially when I had to relive my best friends brains getting splattered all over my face almost every day.

[QUOTE=italics560;23345155]Its about time, I was discharged for PTSD. All they did was give me my release papers and an appointed military therapist. That shit wasn't the greatest, especially when I had to relive my best friends brains getting splattered all over my face almost every day.[/QUOTE] :ohdear:

Glad to see PTSD-sufferers finally getting a break. I remember watching a news segment on how the Canadian Forces were being just about abusive to vets with PTSD, telling them to "suck it up" and the like

[QUOTE=RBM11;23320171]Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL][/QUOTE] I'm afraid to click on the link. [editline]08:11PM[/editline] Sweet Jesus it's worse than I thought. God help this country.

[QUOTE=RBM11;23320171]Read the comments here, they're disgusting. [URL]http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:443f24f1c88700e52922a78e9178a6a2/Obama-More-post-traumatic-stress-help-for-vets-AP;_ylt=AitbztiEWg1WtpjroGWCP2N1fNdF[/URL][/QUOTE] God damnit why did I do that? My IQ must have dropped at least 10 points.