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VETERAN CONDITIONS
March 3, 2009 by Anonymous, 37 weeks 6 days ago
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With over 400,000 homeless vets, over 12, 000 attempted suicides each year, over 300,000 in state and federal prisons system and another 960,000 on parole or probation, recognizing the fact that the VA and the DOD are draging their feet when it comes to veterans mental health issues. Too many veterans are recieving OTH dischages, for behavioral problems ,adjustment problems, pre existing conditions, and other stigmatizing labels, or borderline miss diagnosis, and directives from the VA to suppress these trends by not diagnosing PTSD, but rather give a diagnosis that the VA dosen't have to care for.