Found also in civilian populations and can be ignored, and misdiagnosed, no longer. What always has been and easily ignored, some even making handsome livings writing books and doing paid public speaking in denying the existence, now silent after this past decade plus and these two wars, can no longer be.
Sgt. Allen Hill suffered concussions in Iraq and Afghanistan but it wasn't until he got his brain scanned at NICoE that he could prove he wasn't just faking.Allen Hill: There's folks out there that just accuse soldiers of being malingerers, of faking symptoms and that's like calling me a coward and I'm not.
David Martin: So when you see that physical damage to your brain, what does that say after a year of being told you were a malingerer?
Those severed like their wars for free, very evident with these two recent wars after abandoning the main missions of why the military was sent into that region with the first drum beats pointed at another country of same. It's even easier to ignore, thus not pay, some of the results as those sent return, deja-vu all over again, and even easier to lay blame on the long under funded agency that's the people served responsibility, led by representatives of who've sought to privatize, like much of our defense and wars, for profit for the past number of decades.
May 5, 2013 - Tens of thousands of servicemen and women are dealing with lasting brain damage as the Pentagon scrambles to treat these invisible wounds. David Martin reports.
We all learned a lot in recent years about the dangers of head injuries from contact sports like football. We now know that a hard hit can cause brain damage that only becomes apparent after an athlete's playing days are over. Football is violent, no doubt, but it's nothing compared to war. And just as the National Football League has struggled to come to grips with head injuries so has the military - but on a much vaster scale.
An estimated quarter million servicemen and women have suffered concussions over the past decade of war. Tens of thousands -- no one knows the precise number -- are dealing with lasting brain damage.
snip Farrah Richards: As a spouse, I wasn't thinking "he has traumatic brain injury." That wasn't even something that I really knew about.
Doctors at Ft. Lewis, Washington, told Richards he was simply suffering from post-traumatic stress, a diagnosis that would hang over him for four years.
Ben Richards: If you have post-traumatic stress disorder and you are not improving through counseling, then it's your fault.
David Martin: You're not trying hard enough?
Ben Richards: It was my fault that I wasn't getting better. read more>>>
These present wars have yet to be paid for, All costs! Rubber stamping and rapid deficits rising started before 9/11 and continued with same for the wars. But especially in the early some six years of extremely little was added to the Veterans Administration budgets by those Congresses, and since obstructed by same war rubber stampers. As to the long term results of War, DeJa-Vu all over again. Keeping the VA under budgeted causes many problems and of those many some grow worse, which costs more to correct much more, which is the goal of those seeking to privatize Government Agencies as they attack the people of and which was created by their own incompetence and ideologies, but they are doing those served wills!
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