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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.
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In addition to depression, PTSD, and similar problems suffered by returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets, many must also deal with homelessness - and their psychological/psychiatric problems are made worse because of it. There isn't even enough financial assistance available to make sure that all the returning vets can at least have a place to live, as is illustrated by the following newspaper article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/15/INGO8P5G391.DTL
Posted by: Kent | November 15, 2007 01:58 AM
How the military has used the personality disorders diagnosis to deny our troops the benefits normally afforded honorably discharged soldiers who have been injured, "How Specialist Town Lost his Benefits" by Jonathan Kors at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070409/kors
Also, "They're throwing them away"
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/washington/story/0E4E0348801E58EB8625737B000A36A9?OpenDocument
Posted by: Joe | November 16, 2007 09:46 AM
Lack of food may cause hunger!!
Posted by: Masale.Wallah | November 16, 2007 02:29 PM