Ray Hankin's shorts wrote:OX25 wrote:I can't open your link as I'm working on an old browser so I'll take a look later but to claim 1 in 4 homeless people are veterans is beyond belief. Those kinds of figures are not supported by organisations such as the British Legion. There's little evidence to suggest that Army life or institutionalisation is a cause of homelessness.To be clear, I'm not having a pop at veterans, I'm just questioning this
perception that we have that seems to paint them as being incapable of leading sucessful lives on civvy street.
I'm not suggesting this OX25. Thankfully most of my mates have great lives post the forces be it on the rigs (a common one) to sparkies/telco through to Violence Advisor (that is helping women speak out about violence in the home)What is a fact is that those that saw service will mostly have seen and been through horrors I wouldn't want t imagine - a lot of these people struggle to come to terms with life after the forces whether by a perceived lack of belonging or simply the torture of PTSDI think we're in agreement at a base level.....?
Most of the military personnel during conflicts are employed in support roles, so I'm not sure that most will have experienced the horrors that combat troops face.Serving soldiers suffer PTSD at rates of around 4-6% against about 3% in the general pouplation, which is probably better than most people would expect given the type of work they carry out, but still definitely nothing to crow about.I've also seen reports from military charities expressing concern that mental health issues in the military are being incorreclty diagnosed as PTSD, when in fact they're just as suceptible to other forms of mental illness as you and I. Their argument was that this is simply reinforcing stereotypes that most veterans are adversely affected by their time in the forces when in fact the opposite is true.
