Posttraumatic stress disorder after war

    Posttraumatic stress disorder is an illness that some soldiers suffer after living a traumatic event. This disease can cause problems like flashbacks, difficulty sleeping, feeling of loneliness, explosions of anger, worry and guilt.  The psychological disorders from missions in the hospital are mainly from accidents with vehicles or helicopters. Perhaps one of the most serious was the incident with the Cougar in Afghanistan last August which killed 17 soldiers. The soldiers who were in the second helicopter saw the disastrous situation of his companions and had to evacuate three with acute stress", according to Enrique de Nicolás, Commander and head of the psychology services from the Central Hospital of the Gomez Ulla Defense. This type of situations are the ones that make many soldiers start being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The situations these soldiers live are difficult. These are some words a soldier said and in them we can see reflected how hard it is for them to recover: "There are times in which I feel like crying and remember the cries of people when bombs exploded. I cannot erase from my mind the moment where I had to kill an Iraqi to save my partner’s life. The fact that I can put my feet on the floor and it might be a pit, frightens me ". We all are fighting against those memories on a daily basis and many of them decide to take their life so they don’t have to continue living a traumatic event, such as the war.

    Post-traumatic stress disorder is a disease which has not be given adequate attention. Many military soldiers who go through this disease are not served in the best way. By not being nursed appropriately, we have soldiers that have gone through terrible situations: "In January, 2010, Trooper Joshua Tabor was found guilty of assault after keeping his four years old daughter's head under water for not remembering the alphabet, according to Suzanne Kianpour and David Willis." The mentioned soldier is one of many who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders, and was not nursed. These soldiers became aggressive but it is due to the disorder suffered, and as they were not served because their military base was considered problematic before, so cases of disorders by post-traumatic stress were not taken care of. It is unbelievable how situations so serious the Government ignores and even more worst as it’s a fact that other people’s life may be at risk if these soldiers are not cared properly.  I believe that the Government and each base must provide their military soldiers all the necessary medical care after returning from war, as not only soldiers are affected by this disease also their family is affected.