Feb, 2004
Army suicides reach 21; rate questioned
National Mortality Profile of Active Duty
Personnel in the
U.S. Armed Forces: 1980-1993
Suicide, the GI's Embedded Enemy
Oct, 2003
Suicidal Tendencies is also on the list of what
the EGBE chemical causes: and besides what you
would expect, those who may be exposed to
ethylene glycol monobutyl ether would have the
Central Nervous System damage that no doctor can
help; which by the way, mimics
psychiatric disorder. There will be depression,
short term memory loss, personality changing to
hostile or very irritable, difficulty sleeping,
suicidal tendencies.
Look at the overall picture
suicides, aggression, paranoia, delusions,
depression and psychosis are all just part of
the Central Nervous system damage caused by
2-butoxyethanol: the CFIDS, CFS, FM, autoimmune
causing chemical AVOID it
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http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_mental_021904,00.html
10% At Hospital Had Mental Problems
United Press International
February 19, 2004
LANDSTUHL - As many as 1 of every 10
soldiers from the war on terror
evacuated to the Army's biggest hospital
in Europe was sent there for mental
problems.
Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly
12,000 soldiers from the war on terror,
mostly from Iraq, treated at the
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in
Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral
health issues," according to the
commander of the hospital, Col. Rhonda
Cornum.
That means about 1,000 soldiers were
evacuated for mental problems.
The hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers
from the war on terror, with 9,651 from
Iraq and the rest from Afghanistan,
according to data released by the
hospital.
"We certainly have seen an average, I
would say, of 8 to 10 percent of our
casualties have some psychiatric or
behavioral health issues for which they
were evacuated," Cornum told United
Press International in an interview at
the hospital.
That number excludes soldiers who
arrived at Landstuhl for physical
injuries who also suffer from mental
problems. It also excludes soldiers who
do not realize they suffer from mental
trauma until they returned to the United
States.
A veterans' advocate called the data an
"alarming" barometer of the
psychological toll from the war in Iraq.
"It is an incredible sum and an alarming
number," said Wayne Smith, an adviser to
the Vietnam Veterans of America
Foundation. Smith said the number
reflects only a fraction of the mental
toll from Iraq. He said soldiers need
better help in Iraq and when they
return. "This is a wake-up call," Smith
said.
Cornum said she does not think the
number of troops with mental problems is
shocking.
"It has not seemed unusually high to
me," Cornum said. "Most of them come
with issues, depression or suicidal
ideation based on some stress in their
life that probably got exacerbated by
going down range. If your family life is
doing badly, deploying does not make it
better."
Landstuhl, located just south of
Ramstein Air Base, is the largest U.S.
hospital outside the United States. It
is the main transfer point and treatment
center for soldiers medically evacuated
from Iraq, Kuwait or Afghanistan on
their way back to the United States.
Soldiers arriving from Iraq by plane at
Ramstein are taken by bus up a winding
road through the wooded hills
overlooking the picturesque town of
Landstuhl to the sprawling hospital
complex.
An average of 35 soldiers each day
arrive at Landstuhl -- though 160
patients arrived after the bombing of
the UN compound in Baghdad -- for
treatment in eight operating rooms or to
stay in the 148-bed facility. The nearly
2,000 medical staff includes an increase
of 350 workers to help deal with
soldiers from the war. Because Landstuhl
is used, in part, to stabilize patients
before sending them home, the average
stay is just 4 days.
Cornum would not say how many soldiers
from Iraq have required hospitalization
in Landstuhl's 22-bed in-patient
psychiatric facility. Twelve of those
beds were occupied one day last week.
Hospital data show that 2,489 of the
soldiers who have arrived from Iraq have
required some kind of in-patient medical
care.
Cornum said no soldiers have committed
suicide at Landstuhl, but said the
hospital has treated soldiers after
suicide attempts. She would not say how
many and referred questions to the
Pentagon.
"That is a sensitive thing that some
people might not want you to know, I
guess," Cornum said.
Among soldiers from Iraq with non-battle
injuries, she said Landstuhl was mostly
treating the same problems that happen
at home: "The same things you see, you
know, car wrecks and sports injuries.
People fall down and break bones."
The Pentagon has said little about
health trends among soldiers from Iraq,
and Pentagon officials have made a range
of statements about mental health issues
including suicide.
On Jan. 14, William Winkenwerder Jr.,
undersecretary of defense for health
affairs, told reporters that the number
of confirmed Army suicides for Operation
Iraqi Freedom was "on the high end of
what they've seen in the past."
In a Jan. 28 speech, Pentagon Program
Director for Mental Health Policy Army
Col. Thomas J. Burke said deploying to
Iraq was not causing an increase in
suicide. "Are soldiers killing
themselves in increased numbers due to
deployment? No," Burke said. Burke said
media reports about a high rate of
suicides were "false."
In response to a growing suicide toll in
Iraq, last July the Army surgeon
general's office dispatched a team to
investigate mental health issues there.
The release of that team's report has
been delayed several times.
The Pentagon report on suicides and
mental health issues in Iraq apparently
will reference what the Army has
confirmed as at least 21 soldiers who
have committed suicide in Iraq or
Kuwait. The Pentagon is not counting
deaths of soldiers who returned from
Iraq and then committed suicide,
according to Pentagon spokeswoman Martha
Rudd.
At least three soldiers apparently have
committed suicide in the United States
after serving in Iraq. Two committed
suicide at the Army's Walter Reed
Medical Center in Washington, D.C., one
last July and one in January. The
Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday that
28-year-old Army Spc. Jeremy S. Seeley
apparently committed suicide at the
Shoney's Inn in Clarksville, Tenn., not
far from the 101st Airborne Division's
base at Fort Campbell, Ky. Police found
antifreeze and Drain Pro by the bed.
Autopsy results are incomplete.
Winkenwerder said the Pentagon does not
see any significant trends among the
data but has deployed nine combat stress
teams for forces in Iraq and placed a
psychologist, psychiatrist and social
worker with each division.
Smith, the veterans' advocate, worked as
a therapist at the Veterans
Administration in the 1980s. He said new
Pentagon programs to address war stress
don't work for many soldiers.
"The military, sadly, will talk about
the good things they are doing and the
American people will largely believe
that," Smith said. "But the sad truth is
that is not the case. The military
programs satisfy administrative
procedures, but what gets lost in the
shuffle is the soldier," Smith said. |
Newsweek is asking the Army some tough questions
about the suicide problem in Iraq and in the
United States
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4333595
Check 'the fatigue'
and other symptoms it causes. Check what all
exposures of this chemical are
Maybe by July, 2003 troops had just had TOO much
exposure; it can take a little time, but not
that long if the products are strong in this
poison/pesticide/solvent.
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