> In after the 1991 Gulf War, PTSD rates spiked beyond rates ever seen in the US Army. Last year the [U.S.] Army's vice-chief of staff urged psychiatrists to c

> In after the 1991 Gulf War, PTSD rates spiked beyond rates ever seen in the US Army. Last year the [U.S.] Army's vice-chief of staff urged psychiatrists to change the term to "post-traumatic stress injury." Apparently, too many troops come home with PTSI but refuse to seek help. And as a result, some portion of them end up taking their own lives. The Army's hope is that renaming the phenomenon as an "injury" will reduce the fear of being stigmatized [0]. (Apparently some psychiatrists have rejected the idea of changing the name, because heaven forbid that they should alter their sacred naming convention for no better reason than that it might help some people.) [0] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/05/key-psychiatric-doctor-rejects-name-change-for-ptsd.html http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/05/key-psychiatric-...