PTSD, meds make post-9/11 veterans prone to sex, intimacy problems
UT San Diego
By Jeanette Steele
OCT. 11, 2014
Among people with combat stress — officially known as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD — the risk of sexual dysfunction is threefold.
Donald Urbany should have had it great.
After surviving a car bomb in Iraq, the soldier met a beautiful woman and married her. His wife, Jennifer, didn’t mind his visible war wounds — such as a damaged right eye and scars spidering down his cheek.
But life wasn’t great in the bedroom. Jennifer Urbany could barely get her husband to touch her. The problem got worse after he received a medical retirement in 2007 for his wounds, which included traumatic brain injury.
“She could have been naked and walking across the street, and I’d just be playing video games,” Donald Urbany said.
The combination of physical wounds, emotional trauma and a sometimes full battery of medications is taking a toll on the sex lives of America’s youngest generation of military veterans.
The topic is blush-inducing, to be sure. But some post-9/11 veterans received frank talk on the subject at a conference for combat veterans in Coronado last week.
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