DISPATCHES: BATTLE SCARRED – Channel 4
As the number of British soldiers returning from Afghanistan in coffins exceeds 200, award-winning filmmaker David Modell examines the devastating trauma suffered by so many surviving soldiers that leaves no visible scars but great psychological injury. Dispatches documents the lives of four soldiers who have been left with serious psychiatric problems as a result of their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. This film provides an intimate portrait of their devastating impact on the lives of individual soldiers and raises serious questions about the adequacy of existing support structures.
Monday 7 September 2009
8:00pm
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War is scarring lives on both sides ofthe Atlantic as the 5 Nvember 2009 shooting tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas indicates.
All this has prompted mental health experts to ask: “Why is it that the military take the time to prepare our soldiers to fight but they don’t prepare them for the battle of post traumatic stress disorder when they return from the frontline?”