Demons Defeated UK Veteran--MoD Left Him Unarmed to Fight PTSD

'Demons are winning': Heartbreaking last letter of traumatised soldier who killed himself after he was 'failed by MoD'

The Mirror

Sean Rayment

September 30, 2017

The wife of a British soldier who committed suicide after being ­diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder says he was ­abandoned by the military.

Sarah Emslie said her husband, who served in both Gulf wars, took his own life after a 20-year battle with mental illness triggered by the horrors of war.

Mike Emslie, 44, who hanged himself a week before Christmas, left a suicide note saying: “The demons are winning the battle.

“I have seen things nobody should ever see and I see it everywhere I go.”

Sarah said they asked the Army for help but were told that there were no resources available to treat veterans with PTSD.

Instead – like many other military ­sufferers – the couple were simply advised to visit their GP and seek advice from military charities.

Mike served in both Gulf wars in Iraq (Image: Daily Record)

Mike Emslie's last email to his wife

My sweet, darling wife, this is probably the toughest email I’m going to write. But this isn’t the real me.

The demons are winning the battle, I can’t keep going any more and I’m so tired. I have seen things nobody should ever see and I see it ­everywhere I go and it’s eating away at me. It hurts babe, it’s been 20 years of pain and so much that I can only think of one way to stop the pain.

I know that you think I’m a coward for doing this but the pain is way to much for me, I’m not a strong man any more I don’t want to feel the pain any more.

Tell our son I love him so much and that I’m am so proud of the person he has grown into. Everything I have left I give to you both. Please don’t mourn me I don’t ­deserve it. Just know I’ve never stopped loving you both. I’ll be looking down on you both. All my love, Mike.
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UK Combat Wounded Veteran, Shot Again on Home Soil

War veteran shot in Iraq is attacked just yards from his South Shields home

Chronicle Live UK

Sophie Doughty

September 23, 2017

The dad-of-five said: “I just can’t believe I have come out of the army and been attacked on Civvy Street. I was only about 100 metres from my house.

“I have put my life on the line for my country and this is how I’ve been repaid. I have been shot at in war zones and now I feel unsafe going out here. I expected to be safe after I left the army.”

He put his life on the line for his country in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones and survived being shot.

But army veteran Micky Dennett is now afraid to go out on Tyneside after he was attacked just yards from his home.

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Combat Medic Served with Welsh Regiment in Iraq, Faces Judge Over Jelly?

Before you think I've totally lost my mind, read the story and then understand this veteran served as a medic in combat, but couldn't get over jelly even though he was getting help. Just goes to show that not all help is good help if this happened.

Iraq veteran threatened girlfriend with knife in row over jelly

Devon Live
Ted Davenport
August 23, 2017

Former army medic had PTSD when he attacked partner

A judge has showed mercy on a former army medic who attacked his partner while suffering from post-traumatic stress caused by his service in Iraq.

Christopher Minards threatened his girlfriend with a knife and pushed her and her twin sister during a petty argument over spilled jelly.

He had just come home from working a night shift as a hotel porter when he lost his temper and threw a mug at a mirror, breaking both.

His behaviour was so violent that his partner and her twin sister both fled the home in Newton Abbot and waited for police to arrive.

Minards, aged 32, is a former army medic who has been receiving support and treatment from veteran's charities for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dating back to his service with 4th Rifles and the Welsh Regiment in Iraq.
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UK Hero With PTSD Dumped by Ministry of Defense

NO HELP FOR HERO 

Brave Army officer who defused nearly 100 bombs in Afghanistan says he was dumped by MoD after suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

The SUN UK 
By Sam Webb 
13th August 2017 

Major Wayne Owers was honoured three times by the Queen during his 27-year career.

AN ARMY bomb disposal expert who saved countless lives in war-torn Afghanistan says he has been betrayed by the military after he was discharged while suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Captain Wayne Owers was decorated with The Queen’s Gallantry Medal

But when the 46-year-old, originally from Whitnash, near Leamington in Warwickshire, asked for help tackling his nightmares and extreme anxiety from Army doctors, he was given a medical discharge.

He underwent two years of treatment and was showing signs of improvement – but he was given a medical discharge and just £6,000 compensation rather than a non-operational posting.

He told the Mirror: “The Army was my life but in my darkest hour when I most needed help I was told, ‘You are no longer fit to serve’.

“I was mortified. It was a devastating blow. I could have continued serving.”

In 2013 the Sun reported how Owers crawled forward in the middle of the battle to defuse a bomb in a school in Afghanistan.

When asked if they may be booby trapped and go off in his face when he touched them, the brave soldier grinned as he said: “Probably not.” 

He says the Ministry of Defence’s claim that it is serious about tackling PTSD is nonsense and says he knows soldiers who have lied about their recovery because they don’t want to lose their jobs.

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Iraq Veteran-Amputee More Proud of Surviving PTSD

'I wear my scars as a badge of honour': Iraqi war heroine says she's more proud of surviving PTSD than the bomb blast that buried her alive and claimed her leg
Daily Mail
Unity Blott
August 6, 2017

Hannah Campbell, 33, from Northampton, was injured in Basra in 2007
Blast left her with serious abdomen injuries, and a leg amputation followed
The former Army lance corporal defied the odds to have a second child
Despite her traumatic experience she says she's most proud of surviving PTSD

A mother-of-two who lost her leg an a mortar attack in Iraq says she's more proud of surviving PTSD than the blast that claimed her limb.

Former Army lance corporal Hannah Campbell, from Northampton, was given just a one in ten chance of surviving the horrific injuries she sustained after being buried alive in the 2007 Basra attack.

But the 33-year-old amputee, who has since battled suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder, now sees her scars as a 'badge of honour'.

She told the Sunday People: 'I don’t see these things as flaws any more, I see them as a part of my history and part of me.'
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UK Amputee Soldier Can't Get Treated...Because He's Scottish?

Soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan can't receive hospital treatment in England 'because he's Scottish'

‘I am sitting here without my legs because I fought for this country’ 
The Independent 
Narjas Zatat 
July 28, 2017 

A Scottish soldier who lost both his legs while serving for the British Army in Afghanistan has been told he can no longer continue to receive specialist treatment in England. 

Lance Corporal Callum Brown said staff at the Queen Elizabeth Birmingham Trust hospital, which houses experts in amputee and veteran care, said NHS England could no longer provide funding. 

The 28-year-old, from the west coast Scottish town of Ayr, was injured by a bomb blast during a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2011 and airlifted home. 
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UK Firefighters Help Comes In Tiny Stunt After Grenfell Towers

All of us remember hearing the news about Grenfell Towers burning. Few of us know what happened after the fire was put out.

Scotland Yard named 18 of the dead and withheld the identities of 22 more at the requests of their families. Besides those named by police, 15 people were identified when their inquests were opened and adjourned at Westminster coroner’s court . Officers believe that 255 people survived the fire.

And that is the problem. We never seem to be able to pay attention after the fire stops burning. Just as we never seem able to pay attention after wars start, police standoffs end and guns go quiet. 

We avoid asking any questions about the response our first responders get, because after all, it is their jobs to face everything they encounter and deal with it. Right? Isn't that what we expect?

Well, I'm here to tell you that they should be able to expect a lot out of us in return. This story is about firefighters in the UK, but they are just as human as firefighters all over the world and equally ignored. Its just so easy to forget they run into what all of us run away from for a reason.

Anyway, when they suffer for saving our lives, who the hell is fighting to save theirs?

Read this story but while you are, notice that the response to these first responders suffering is other members after a 1 day training course. Yep~

Police and firefighters seek help from mental health charity after Grenfell fire and terror incidents 
Evening Standard UK 
CHLOE CHAPLAIN 
3 hours ago 

But one officer said TriM was rushed in and was being delivered by "current police officers who have done a one-day training course."

A post-traumatic stress charity has issued a stark warning about poor mental health support for frontline staff and revealed members of the emergency services reached out for help in the wake of recent major incidents.

 (note: yes that is playground equipment)

Around 30 police officers and firefighters have been in contact with PTSD999 seeking support with the condition following the Grenfell Tower fire and recent terror attacks. Dany Cotton, commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said the welfare of staff was paramount after the Grenfell disaster, while the Metropolitan Police said it had specialist programmes in place after recent high profile events.

Steve White, chairman of the Police Federation, and Sean Starbuck, lead officer for mental health with the Fire Brigades Union, said care was improving but raised concerns over cuts to resources.

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I've been doing this for almost 35 years and I'm still learning facts as much as I've read pure BS. I did two years of training to become a Chaplain and do Crisis Intervention as well as grief and loss, just to be able to work with the responders. Reading about a 1 day training in response to this, is a pathetic tiny stunt so they can say, "well we did something about it" instead of we did everything possible for them.

UK PTSD Veterans Are Not Victims of Anyone But Politicians

Hey, buddies across the pond...is this guy for real? He really thinks that combat PTSD is the same as what civilians get? Guess he still didn't get the fact that civilians can get hit by PTSD from one event but you guys faced them everyday. Was he even deployed?

Ex-Army captain standing as Tory MP says too many veterans are misdiagnosed with PTSD
The Mirror UK
Chris Hughes
May 5, 2017

“I am actually shocked that Johnny Mercer is downplaying the seriousness of PTSD. It is a serious mental health condition that causes real suffering, and is not just confined to military veterans. His Government talks big words about more funding for mental health services, but Mr Mercer’s words are all too typical. Neither he nor his government take mental health seriously, and they assume that these illnesses are not real." Labour candidate Sue Dann

A former Army captain bidding for re-election as a Tory MP has sparked a row by claiming too many war veterans are misdiagnosed with PTSD.

Conservative Johnny Mercer said post traumatic stress disorder can be “thrown around as an excuse” and that there’s a need to focus on people who are “genuinely ill.”

He said while PTSD is a “chronic condition” he believes misdiagnosis is leading to a culture of “victimhood” among veterans.

He added: “There is a one per cent increase in your likelihood of getting PTSD if you are in combat troops in the military.

“If you’re not in a combat arm, it’s the same as society outside of the military. We’ve got to be realistic about PTSD. I say that not from any lack of sympathy.
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We have the same problem here but remember, there are more of you than there are politicians in your country too! 

Veteran Royal Navy Officer Run Over With Own Car After Breakin

Navy officer Mike Samwell's car theft death 'beyond criminal'

• 24 April 2017
 
• From the sectionManchester

Image copyrightGMP

Image captionMike Samwell served in the Royal Navy for 10 years

The death of an ex-Royal Navy officer who confronted intruders breaking into his home has been described by police as "more than criminal".

Mike Samwell, 35, is believed to have been run over by his own car in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, on Sunday.

Shouting was heard in the street at about 03:00 BST and he was found badly injured. He later died in hospital.

Detectives appealed to local criminals to help in the hunt for the killer.
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"On the Outside I was Perfectly Fine" Veteran Battles PTSD

Former Army captain Lisa Keevash on mental struggle: On the outside I was perfectly fine
The Express UK
By DANNY BUCKLAND
PUBLISHED: Sun, Mar 19, 2017

“I didn’t know who I was. I started to get dark moods and would become really anxious and jealous. I didn’t want to go out and was inflexible. I became argumentative and snappy and people were treading on eggshells around me. My boyfriend at the time bore the brunt of it."

EX-Army captain Lisa Keevash opens up about her mental battle scars.

After a decorated military career, former Army captain Lisa Keevash slipped easily into corporate life with a high-powered job and enviable lifestyle. She was successful and she was fit, but deep inside she was in dark turmoil.

The suppressed feelings from dealing with battlefield casualties and seeing a close officer friend die after an improvised explosive device (IED) blast were twisting her soul and threatening to wreck her life.

If we can make it normal to talk about our struggles then we can stop a lot of these problems getting to a point where they do real damage Lisa Keevash

"On the outside, I was perfectly fine. I had a great job, a new relationship. I was fit, healthy and everyone thought I had made it,” says Lisa, 34, from Edinburgh. “But I was existing in a haze – there in body but not mind."

"I was not enjoying anything, I lost confidence and had anxiety about everything in my life. I was really lost."

“I became snappy, argumentative and generally not a nice person to be around at times. It got very dark.”
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UK Amputee Forced to Wait For Limbs--Third Time

Fury as MoD scheme to give disabled war veterans hi-tech limbs is cancelled THREE times
MIRROR UK
BY MARTYN HALLEDAN WARBURTON
25 FEB 2017

Officials at the Ministry of Defence say they are unable to say when the trial – which fuses bones with titanium rods – will start again

A scheme that could give dozens of limbless war veterans new legs on the NHS has been cancelled three times, the Sunday People can reveal.

Defence chiefs admitted a 27-patient surgical programme has been delayed due to issues with the “equipment supply chain”.

It is a blow to brave veterans who have suffered devastating injuries in conflict zones across the world including Iraq and Afghanistan.
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UK: Community Makes House a Home for Veteran with PTSD

A soldier with PTSD was discharged with nothing. We made his house a home
The Guardian
Julian Cash and Marianne Cash
February 17, 2017

Using donations from local residents, we furnish homes for people rebuilding their lives, to give them a fresh start and restore their dignity

Using donations from local residents,

Community Furniture Aid furnish homes for people who have nothing.

Photograph: Community Furniture Aid

Totally shut down, sitting motionless and staring at the floor, his only communication was “I don’t think I can cope with this”.

My wife and I had been approached by the support worker of an ex-soldier, who was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

He was being rehoused – but into a completely empty property, with bare walls and concrete floors. Having lived all his life at home and then in barracks, this young man did not know how to furnish the property. Until then, everything had always been provided for him.

Worse still, he was struggling to even communicate after his traumatic experiences in Afghanistan. We tried to take away the pressure by listing all the essential items that he would need: something to sleep on, sit on, eat off and cook with. Essentially, all the things we take for granted. We also added pictures for the wallsand rugs on the floor. The only charge was £70 to cover our basic costs.

When we delivered all the furniture, the young man was overwhelmed and his support worker was amazed at the amount that was provided. The empty house suddenly became a home. All the stress of having to source each individual item was taken away and the young man was able to concentrate on his rehabilitation.
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Combat Veteran 70% of Suicides in UK

Armed Forces suicide shock as combat veterans make up 70% of cases
Mirror UK
Sean Rayment
February 4, 2017

Up to 189 Armed Forces members have taken their lives since 2002 with the majority of cases coming from those who have experience in warzones

Suicide levels in the Army are the highest of all three services (Photo: Getty)

The overwhelming majority of suicides in the Armed Forces are by battlefield veterans.

Figures show 70 per cent of all cases in the Army over six years were soldiers who had warzone experience.

The Sunday People understands that the highest rate was in 2013 when seven out of eight deaths – 87 per cent – were troops who had seen action in Iraq or Afghanistan. In 2009, as fighting in Afghanistan peaked, 11 out of 15 suicides were troops with front line experience and in 2012 it was 12 out of 16.

The figures, released after a parliamentary question, reveal up to 189 Armed Forces members have taken their lives since 2002. Suicides in the Army were the highest of all three services and the stats raise fresh concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder in troops – as highlighted in a Sunday People campaign.
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Gang Dresses Up as Soldiers, Gets Confronted by Real Veteran

UK Fake Soldiers pretend to be with Invicted Foundation after they said "Invictus" 

'YOU ARE NOT EX-FORCES' Shocking moment war veteran confronts a gang of ‘conmen dressed in army uniform pretending to be from a homeless charity’

Ex-para Colin Eastaway confronted the men after he spotted them collecting money in Nottingham city centre

VIDEO

The Sun

BY COREY CHARLTON

25th December 2016

THIS is the shocking moment an ex-para confronts a gang of youths dressed in army uniform apparently posing as a charity helping homeless veterans at Christmas.

Colin Eastaway – who served with Parachute Regiment in Afghanistan – spotted the lads dressed in camouflage collecting coins in a bucket in Nottingham city centre.

But he claims they were not serving soldiers, making it an offence to wear the colours, and bamboozled them with questions about their military history, IDs and charity permits. 

Colin recorded the angry exchange on his phone as the youths become aggressive when told them: “You’ are not ex-forces,” in front of stunned passersby.

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UK PTSD Veterans Charity Caught Selling Anti-Muslim T-Shirts

Brit Afghan war vet confronts military fundraisers selling 'anti-Muslim T-shirts'
Daily Star UK
By Tess Willorns
Published 3rd December 2016

"I've lost friends along the way, and friends have been seriously injured along the way so it's close to my heart." Colin Eastway

Colin Eastway, 36, captured the moment he confronted the fundraisers raising cash for the 1st Knight Military Charity.

It is currently being investigated by fundraising watchdogs after staff were filmed selling merchandise with the words "pork-eating, beer drinking, womanising infidels" and badges referring to suicide bombers in their Blackpool-based shop.

Paratrooper Colin, who served in the army for 10 years and completed three tours of Afghanistan, drove for more than two hours from his Liverpool home after he heard the charity was fund-raising at Victoria Shopping Centre in Harrogate, Yorks.

Colin filmed himself questioning the two supporters – only one of which has official charity ID – and repeatedly asked them how much they were being paid and what percentage of donations were actually going to the Armed Forces.

1st Knight, which raises money for wounded soldiers and those with Post-Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD), has admitted selling the offensive merchandise and has sacked one of its trustees.

The charity said the trustee had mistakenly ordered the stock due to having dyslexia.
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UK: Paratrooper Fell to His Death Waiting For Help For PTSD

Paratrooper who saw 'very severe action' in Afghanistan fell to his death from a hotel rooftop in Vietnam while waiting for a psychiatrist to decide whether he had PTSD, inquest hears
Daily Mail
By RORY TINGLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:21 EST, 25 November 2016

Peter O'Sullivan was assessed by a nurse who felt he might of had PTSD.
Nurse decided to refer him to psychiatrist but was a 4 month waiting list.
Former soldier did not survive until then, falling to his death in Vietnam.

Peter O'Sullivan, who had seen 'very severe military activity' in Afghanistan during ten years in the Parachute Regiment, had been assessed by a mental health nurse

A former paratrooper fell to his death from a hotel rooftop while waiting for a psychiatrist to decide whether he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, an inquest heard yesterday.

Peter O'Sullivan, who had seen 'very severe military activity' in Afghanistan during ten years in the Parachute Regiment, had been assessed by a mental health nurse from the Combat Stress charity who felt he might have PTSD.

The nurse decided to refer him to a consultant psychiatrist - but there was a four month waiting list for an appointment and Mr O'Sullivan did not survive until then.

Two months before the appointment he took crystal meth while on holiday in Vietnam and fell to his death from the top of the Liberty Hotel in Ho Ch Minh City on Feb 13th this year, the Gloucester inquest was told.

His family, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, are now hoping the authorities will recognise Mr O'Sullivan's death as a direct consequence of PTSD resulting from his service in the elite Pathfinder platoon of the Parachute Regiment.
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UK: Afghanistan Veteran Wins Q Fever Disability Claim

Afghanistan veteran wins landmark Q fever compensation claim
The Guardian
Owen Bowcott
November 24, 2016

Ruling may pave way for MoD payouts to others affected by illness that left ex-Royal Marine Phillip Eaglesham in wheelchair

Phillip Eaglesham competed for Ireland in the Rio Paralympics.

Photograph: Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile via Getty Images

An Afghanistan war veteran who contracted Q fever has won a landmark compensation claim against the Ministry of Defence that could pave the way for payouts to others.

Phillip Eaglesham, a former Royal Marine commando corporal, contracted the chronic condition two days before he was due to return home from a tour of duty in 2010.

He developed flu-like symptoms, fatigue and sweating, which developed into muscular weakness and he is now in a wheelchair.

Eaglesham, 35, who lives with his wife and children in Taunton, Somerset, is likely to receive a significant sum in damages, possibly more than £1m. He regularly requires care to help him with needs as basic as brushing his teeth.

Q fever, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, is spread when spores from animals are dispersed by the wind. It was first identified in Australia in the 1930s.

Eaglesham’s lawyers argued that the MoD should have known that the infection was present in southern Afghanistan and that it could have prevented it causing serious illness.
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UK: Homeless Veteran's Life Changed By Human Kindness

Woman's kind-hearted gesture could change a homeless war veteran's life forever - and she's inspired others to do the same "Nobody should be alone. Nobody should be on the streets with nobody to support them"
Mirror UK
BY JOSHUA BARRIE
20 NOV 2016

Kevin says he returned from the war to find his partner with another man

(Photo: Facebook)

A woman's kind deed in helping a homeless war veteran has moved thousands – and caused the start of a ripple effect, inspiring others to do the same.

Kerry Stewart, who lives in Darwen, Lancashire, shared on Saturday a sad story about a homeless man called Kevin, whom she'd met late one evening in Blackburn.

Kerry writes that she first met a man called Kevin in a retail park. She bought him a cup of tea and a muffin and got chatting. Kerry says that she and her daughter spoke to Kevin for some time, and "learned that Kevin is not an addict or alcoholic, as many will presume, but is an ex-squaddie who came back to Burnley from the Army to find his wife shacked up with someone else."

Kevin apparently left his children, his dog, and now sleeps rough. He says that he stays away from local hostels as they're "full of junkies and dodgy landlords".

Mum Kerry continues in her Facebook post that she provided Kevin some clothes and food . She's carried on meeting up and finding out more about his life.

"Clearly suffering with PTSD, he cried when he told me of his recurring nightmare remembering the sight of body parts in an Iraqi village, most notably the arm of a child," Kerry writes.

She adds that Kevin told her "nothing could have prepared him" for a life after the Army, and it seems like he's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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UK PTSD Veteran: Eecognition That You Served Your Country Well

At last Harry hero gets his medal, all thanks to the Mail on Sunday: Veteran who served alongside the Prince in Afghanistan receives the award he should have had EIGHT years ago
Daily Mail
By NICK CONSTABLE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
15 October 2016

Mr Smith, 44, said: ‘I can’t thank The Mail on Sunday enough. I left the Army with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder and have had problems readjusting to civilian life. 'A lot of it stems from needing to feel valued and have recognition that you served your country well.

Served together: Prince Harry (left) is pictured with fellow soldiers including Sergeant Deane Smith (right) on his way into a church in Windsor for a remembrance service in 2008

An Army veteran who served alongside Prince Harry in Afghanistan has at last been given the service medal he should have received eight years ago – thanks to The Mail on Sunday.

Last week, this newspaper reported how Sergeant Deane Smith had lost a court battle for ownership of his Operational Service Medal.

It went missing shortly before it was due to be presented to him at a ceremony in 2008, at which the Prince and others who served with the Household Cavalry were given their honours.
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UK: Heroes Cannot Live With Trauma of PTSD

For all the global awareness of PTSD and suicides, this is the result. They managed to survive combat with every anguishing moment yet too many cannot survive living in their own countries. So when do we stop the bullshit of raising awareness they are suffering and actually tell them how they can heal?

Tragedy of the Afghanistan and Iraq Army heroes who cannot live with the trauma of PTSD
Mirror UK
BY SEAN RAYMENT , PHIL CARDY , JONATHAN CORKE
18 SEP 2016

One serviceman or woman commits suicide almost every two weeks, official figures have revealed and nearly 400 have taken their lives between 1995 and 2014

Lee Alan Dodgson is the latest of 400 troops to

lose their lives due to post traumatic stress

Lee Alan DodgsonLee Alan Dodgson is the latest of 400 troops to lose their lives due to post traumatic stress

He survived tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia – but it was a silent killer that claimed the life of Lee Dodgson.

Only 40, the ex-soldier was found lying near the spot where his father’s ashes were scattered.

For years the dad-of-one had been failed by authorities in his fight with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Speaking shortly after Lee’s funeral, his stepmum Roseann told us: “Post-traumatic stress disorder is underrated. It’s a silent killer. It’s not recognised quick enough.

“He has said he was told that you don’t show your emotions, you hold them in. They, the soldiers, aren’t taught how to deal with it.”

One serviceman or woman commits suicide almost every two weeks, official figures have revealed.

Nearly 400 have taken their lives between 1995 and 2014.

Today the Sunday People highlights Lee’s tragic story and demands change.
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