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PTSD in the World War II Combat Veteran

2003; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 103; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/00000446-200311000-00023

1538-7488

Charles Kaiman,

Education and Military Integration

In Brief Many years after the war, some aging veterans find themselves fighting a new battle—coping with delayed-onset or exacerbated posttraumatic stress disorder. A nurse describes the psychotherapy group he initiated to treat them. World War II veterans are reaching their 80s and 90s, and many are facing exacerbations of posttraumatic stress disorder. Losses that normally occur with aging-the deaths of loved ones, the loss of a job, diminished health-can rekindle wartime memories, survivor guilt, and unresolved grief.