Australian Soldiers returning home with PTSD

Soldiers returning home with PTSD
Paula's husband Glenn is an Australian soldier, and after serving in Timor, and Afghanistan he has returned home, a changed man, and his family are finding it hard to reach out to him.

Paula's story is not an easy one to listen to. And she thought long and hard before telling it today.
The Brisbane mother and wife didn't want to - she wanted to work it out in her family. And then she wanted to work it out in the army.
None of that's worked. She even went to the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel minister Warren Snowdon. And now she's decided to tell it publicly.
Her husband Glenn is an Australian soldier. He went to Timor, and then Afghanistan.
And then last Christmas he came home. She almost didn't recognise him.
"He's like a shell.
"You see him and it looks like Glenn, but that's as far as you go, there's nothing there."
Paula says it took months before her husband Glenn was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and now he's being cared for at home.
Now Paula is asking how many other soldiers are suffering from PTSD.


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Soldiers returning home with PTSD