Living with PTSD: Former military medic reveals how the battle goes on for veterans

[stu007]

Living with PTSD: Former military medic reveals how the battle goes on for veterans

 

The first female RAF paramedic to work on the Afghan frontline, she now finds it impossible to step outside the front door of her Wigan home most days. She wets the bed and has recurring nightmares, in which she regularly finds herself back in Afghanistan surrounded by the horrors she has witnessed.

 

Flt Lt Sanderson completed three tours of Afghanistan. During that time, she was routinely flown by helicopter into the heart of the fighting to care for military and civilian casualties.

 

It was after the third tour that the impact on her mental health became clear - and in September last year, she was given a medical discharge.

 

Please also watch the video as it gives you a better perspective

 

Read More Here: http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-09/living-with-ptsd-former-military-medic-reveals-how-the-battle-goes-on-for-veterans/

[ScarletPimpernel]

By coincidence, last week I was working with another former RAF paramedic who has PTSD.

 

They were doing almost back to back tours in Afghanistan because there were so few of them - and a budget cut meant that a number of paramedics were taken out of training just before they finished their courses, so others had to keep going back.

 

PTSD is worth £53 a week in benefit, which seems to me to be a pittance.

[citizenB]

By coincidence, last week I was working with another former RAF paramedic who has PTSD.

 

They were doing almost back to back tours in Afghanistan because there were so few of them - and a budget cut meant that a number of paramedics were taken out of training just before they finished their courses, so others had to keep going back.

 

PTSD is worth £53 a week in benefit, which seems to me to be a pittance.

 

It's an insult is what it is, SP !

 

An RAF secretary who hurt her thumb, poor dear, was awarded £484,000!!

 

An RAF typist who injured her thumb at work is to be paid almost half a million pounds by the Ministry of Defence.

 

 

 

The civilian's award is almost 30 times the amount a serviceman would receive for the same injury.

 

 

It is eight times more than a soldier would receive for losing a leg and almost double the amount he could expect if he lost both legs.

 

 

The £484,000 payout was condemned by former soldiers, politicians and servicemen's charities who fear it will severely damage morale.

 

 

Read more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-471700/RAF-typist-hurt-thumb-awarded-times-soldier-lost-leg.html

Edited November 11, 2015 by citizenB
restored quote box

[refuser]

in my army days 90 - 93 - no one gave a [edited]. seems not much has changed. MOD civvy xxxxs.

up the ghurkas

this is the nonsense we take we serve (d)

admiteddly get the job done )

 

ubique quo fas et gloria ducunt

Edited November 11, 2015 by refuser