A BBC investigation has found that Armed Forces veterans struggling with mental health issues are being put at risk from a therapy used by a Welsh charity.
Full report HERE.
According to Public Health England, one in four people in the UK will suffer a mental health problem in the course of a year. The attendant cost to the economy in England has recently been estimated at £105 billion, and treatment costs are expected to double in the next 20 years.
Veterans Aid believes that veterans are no more susceptible to mental illness than anyone else. It deplores the fact that they are increasingly represented as vulnerable, dysfunctional victims and cautions strongly against the media tendency to over-ascribe PTSD and other conditions to military service.
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