The author of the bestselling Bravo Two Zero, he told the London Telegraph: "What we have at the moment is a time-bomb of post traumatic stress disorder that will go off in the next ten to 15 years."Mr McNab told that paper that more soldiers committed suicide after the Falklands War than the number who died in the conflict.He said that in the last 15 years "the situation for ex-service personnel simply hasn't improved" and he condemned the "lack of continued welfare support".The comments come after Welsh MP Elfyn Llwyd uncovered figures under the Freedom of Information Act which show one in ten prisoners in the UK was a member of the armed forces.McNab's latest book, Seven Troop, is an account of his time in the SAS.
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PTSD can be CURED ie Patients can be 'Restored to Normality'.
Important to understand it it NOT
a problem of the mind but of patients' FEELINGS. EXCESS of STRESS causes FEELINGS to be 'out of control' or SENSITISED. Solution is to DESENSITISE the FEELINGS.
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