Fort Drum Doctor calls PTSD “behavioral health condition"

Fort Drum Doctor calls PTSD “behavioral health condition”
November 19, 2010 posted by Chaplain Kathie · 1 Comment (Edit)


Sounds bad to start off with but it ended up getting worse.

Hammond mother fights to get son treated for PTSD
When Rene Schwappach’s son Gerald (“Jerry”) left for Iraq in 2007, she never imagined he would come back “somebody different.”
By: Ashley Halladay, New Richmond News

When Rene Schwappach’s son Gerald (“Jerry”) left for Iraq in 2007, she never imagined he would come back “somebody different.”

As Veterans Day has recently passed, Rene says her son and many other soldiers at Fort Drum in New York are not getting the help and medical treatment America’s soldiers deserve.

“You think if they come back in one piece, everything is going to be all right,” she said. But she said Gerald’s post-traumatic stress disorder has left him anxious, angry and suffering from nightmares nearly every night.

Gerald has been stationed at the Fort Drum New York 10th Division 38th Brigade Warrior Transition Unit since Jan. 12 and feels he is not getting adequate medical care.

After receiving depressed and suicidal phone calls from her son about his treatment and the staff at Fort Drum, Rene flew to New York on Oct. 1 to see what her son was experiencing. She stayed at Fort Drum for 15 days and said she was disgusted with what she saw.

Upon leaving, Rene said, “I never cried so much in my life.”

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Fort Drum Doctor calls PTSD behavioral health condition