Stress symptoms rise with multiple tours

Deployments take heavy toll
Stress symptoms rise with multiple tours
Devon Haynie
The Journal Gazette

The day after President Obama announced the Afghanistan surge, Spc. Curt Kelley got a letter from the Department of Defense.


It was a letter he’d received twice before: First, in 2005, foreshadowing a tame tour of central Iraq. And again in 2007, foreshadowing a far more dangerous deployment – the bloody kind that he says still haunts his dreams.


As a former active Army soldier with two years left in the U.S. Army Individual Ready Reserve, Kelley feels honor-bound to go back to Iraq a third time. But his other side, his civilian side, is concerned about how his next deployment will affect his sleeping problems, his anxiety and his changing personality – symptoms he chalks up to self-diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly referred to as PTSD.
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