{"id":589,"date":"2010-07-24T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-07-24T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:03:44","slug":"mental-disease-rising-among-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/24\/589\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mental disease rising among US troops&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"mental-disease\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/mental-disease.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"185\" \/>America&#8217;s wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are taking a toll on US soldiers, as the latest statistics show one out of every nine American soldiers leaves the army on a medical discharge due to a mental disorder.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have 100,000 troops and a third of them suffer some sort of mental health disease and half of those suffer multiple health disease,&#8221; Paul Martin from Peace Action told Press TV&#8217;s correspondent.<br \/>The army alone saw a 64 percent increase in those forced out due to mental illness between 2005 and 2009, the numbers equal to one in nine of all medical discharges.<br \/>According to army statistics, last year alone 1,224 soldiers suffering from mental illnesses, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, received a medical discharge.<br \/>According to Mental health experts there is a growing emotional toll on the US military which has been fighting for seven years in Iraq and nine years in Afghanistan, and there is a clear relationship between multiple deployments and increased symptoms of anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.<br \/>Some experts say age is also a factor.<br \/>&#8220;We are talking young people &#8212; 18 to 24-year-olds, who are seeing the horrors of war,&#8221; Martin said.<br \/>Analysts are concerned that with budget cuts looming, military medical programs will be the first on the chopping block.<br \/>The soldiers who are discharged for having both a mental and physical disability increased by 174% during the last 5 years from a little under 1,400 in 2005, to more than 3,800 in 2009, according to army statistics.<br \/>The suicide rate among US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has escalated to a record high, with an average of one suicide per day in June.<br \/>According to US Army statistics, a total of 32 soldiers took their own lives last month, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides. 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