Mental Health

PTSD can affect anyone exposed to a traumatic event. On PTSD Awareness Day it should be recognized that awareness and treatment of PTSD is crucial.

Joining Forces, an initiative launched by Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, has reached out through their Veterans Crisis Hotline PSAs.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is committed to helping and advocating for the Survivors of America's Veterans. Learn more about what they are doing.

Clinical Psychologist for the National Center for PTSD

Teams at VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology have collaborated to create a mobile phone application (app) to help Veterans and Service Members who have, or may have PTSD.

Joining Forces is a community-based effort to lessen the burden on military families through programs focused on mental health, jobs, homelessness and more.

When PTSD is discussed, it often refers to treatment after the wounds have happened. The Marine Corps wants to tackle combat stress on the field of battle.

Veteran Treatment Courts continue to spread across the country, welcomed by communities for their efforts to help Veterans in need.

Eleven Veterans, including a blind Veteran and three with missing legs, and ascended an 18,500-foot mountain in Nepal.

Patricia Hayes, Chief Consultant for Women Veterans Health, responds to a previous post from a female Veteran regarding the struggles with VA care.

A Veteran shares her experiences and struggles with VA Care for obstetric care, and the need for a streamlined process to aid reintegrating female Veterans.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the proposed budget for 2012 which requests funds for medical care and mental health programs.

Active Duty U.S. Army Captain; Co-founder of OnViolence.com

As the Army struggles to explain why suicides are climbing, they ignore a fundamental problem--a culture of checking the block. And when the Army “checks the mental health block,” it eventually impacts the Veteran Affairs Department.