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How Do These Two Student Veterans Deal with PTSD in the Classroom?

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The Department of Veterans Affairs says 61 percent of all men and 51 percent of all women will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lives.

For two of those men, Indiana University Southeast students Logan Walsh and Richard Weaver, trauma they experienced while serving in Iraq has metastasized into post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.

How they and others afflicted with PTSD deal with it is the subject of this article by Ethan Smith, a staff writer for The Horizon, Indiana University Southeast’s student newspaper.

Two Student Veterans Share PTSD Struggles

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Coping with PTSD in the Traditional, and Online Setting (Part 1)

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By Phil McNair
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Office of the President at American Public University System

It is estimated that 7 percent of civilians in the United States will have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during their lifetime, and 2.2 percent of them (7.7 million people) have PTSD at any given time.  Among military and veteran populations the numbers are significantly higher: the National Center for PTSD, operated by the Veterans Administration, calculates that 11-20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans may have PTSD – that is more than 300,000 individuals. Some sub-set of these groups attends college, thus PTSD is undeniably inside our classrooms.