Bleak studies from the Pentagon medical community

Now do you believe me? All the "prevention" programs have made it worse at the same time the repeated deployments were putting too much stress on the troops.

Pentagon Medics Weigh in on the “Signature Scars of a Long War”
TIME Battleland
By Mark Thompson
April 25, 2013

Sometimes, the doctors will tell you what the politicians won’t.

That’s the bottom line in a new Pentagon assessment of the human costs of the nation’s post-9/11 wars, which shows mental casualties growing far more rapidly than any kind of physical wound – along with a warning that the nation has only begun paying the costs of such injuries.

The April edition of the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report is the latest in a long series of bleak studies from the Pentagon medical community charting the hidden costs of the nation’s recent wars. It notes that the hospitalization rate for mental disorders among active-duty military personnel, for example, grew by 8% from 2002 to 2006, but more than doubled from 2006 to 2012. These reports tend to be unheralded, and aren’t rolled out with press briefings, or even press releases. Instead, they’re written for military medical professionals and quietly issued to guide their efforts in patient care and research.

“However, for mental disorders, annual hospitalization rates were fairly stable from 2002 through 2006 and then sharply increased from 2006 through 2012.” read more here