Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome Still Very Present

Cases of pot traumatic stress syndrome have sky rocketed up by a large 50%. Records show roughly 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with the illness, also known as PTSD, since 2003. Officials believe that many more are likely keeping their illness a secret. These numbers have not be available to the public previously. Army statistics showed there were nearly 14,000 newly diagnosed cases across the services in 2007 compared with more than 9,500 new cases the previous year and 1,632 in 2003. "We're trying very hard to encourage soldiers and families to seek care and to not have them feel in any way, shape or form that we're looking over their shoulder or that we're invading their privacy," Schoomaker that is suffering from post traumatic syndrome. This is a sad reality that will only continue to grow as long as the war goes on and more wars progress.