When soldiers came home from Vietnam, psychiatrists, the military and the Veterans Administration didn't recognize the existence of mental illness caused by exposure to combat trauma.

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And this season even the television show Homeland took the opportunity to address, through the wife of a former prisoner of war, the totally unanticipated emotional consequences resulting from the trauma that combat veterans bring back from the field.

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Nothing like the trauma we see with combat veterans, at-risk teens or battered women, but an emotional trauma that has triggered fear as the primary motivating factor.

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The report comes two days after Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC accused the government of failing to offer enough help for veterans with mental trauma caused by their combat experiences.

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This type of work is extremely therapeutic for people who have suffered the trauma of prison, poverty or combat.

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