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Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon
Five soldiers injured in the same 2009 bomb blast are a case study in a new epidemic among America's troops, who are grappling with a combination of concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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(first published March 18th 2011)
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July 2012: Reread it this time for a paper I am writing in Psychology.
April 2011: This was a very hard book to read. I was also affected by an IED blast in Iraq. I am still living with the headaches, ringing ears, light sensitivity, memory problems, nightmares, anger, need to withdraw from public and disintegrating bones in my spine. I started getting physically sick when I was reading the first part of this book. I was reading on my Kindle and needed to enlarge the font because my eyes were get...more
April 2011: This was a very hard book to read. I was also affected by an IED blast in Iraq. I am still living with the headaches, ringing ears, light sensitivity, memory problems, nightmares, anger, need to withdraw from public and disintegrating bones in my spine. I started getting physically sick when I was reading the first part of this book. I was reading on my Kindle and needed to enlarge the font because my eyes were get...more
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Another sad reminder of the complete failure of support and care systems in place for returning Iraq/Afg veterans dealing with wounds we can't see. Well written informative piece on PTSD and brain injuries and the system that fails these injured vets time and time again, told through the lens of one returning soldier's story that included a stand off with police before getting the help he truly needed....more
This Kindle Single has enough material hidden among the pages to write a whole novel about, and I hope that the authors and the team behind this expose really consider expanding their scope; this is an important, such an important, topic, and the stories of the soldiers of Psycho Platoon, and countless other soldiers suffering from TBI and/or PTSD must be told!!!
A well-researched read on the cognitive effects of concussions sustained in combat. The story focuses on a local vet suffering from severe PTSD who tried to commit suicide by cop last fall. His story's been in the papers a lot around here, and it's helpful to have a medical context for it.
I remember this blast. My friend had only been at Camp Liberty for a month when a rocket came thru the wall and into one of the trailers. I wondered what happened to the people inside, now I know. Tragic.
It's a free kindle book, and can be read in under an hour. Worth your hour.
It's a free kindle book, and can be read in under an hour. Worth your hour.
This is a well written book on a very unfortunate subject.
It is pretty disgusting that the head injuries of professional and collegiate football players get more attention than the injuries of those people who serve and protect our country.
It is pretty disgusting that the head injuries of professional and collegiate football players get more attention than the injuries of those people who serve and protect our country.
However you feel about the United States' in Iraq and Afghanstain, you should read this. Miller deals with the effects of PTSD among a Platoon.
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Quick read as a free kindle single. Informative read on effects of PTSD and TBI.
Fascinating. Heartbreaking. Recommended.
Very good book. 4.4...
Interesting information with anecdotes that talks about concussions, the hidden damage, PTSD and what the government is doing for our veterans.
Note: Provided free by Amazon.com
Note: Provided free by Amazon.com
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