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Stiff upper lip leads to greater mental health problems for ex-soldiers: (UK TELEGRAPH)
June 04, 2009
A "significant number" of soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan could be suffering silently from issues like post traumatic stress disorder because of traditional British reserve, the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Annual Meeting was told. Prof McFarlane, Professor Alexander McFarlane, professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide and head of the Australian Centre for Military and Veterans' Health, said that soldiers tend to have a "stiff upper lip" and do not readily complain - but British soldiers are just as vulnerable to post traumatic stress disorder as the military in other countries and this needed to be identified. [click here to view] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5438437/Stiff-upper-lip-leads-to-greater-mental-health-problems-for-ex-soldiers.html)
