{"id":47113,"date":"2014-11-29T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_veterans_seek_help_for_ptsd_decades_after_war\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T22:04:46","slug":"wsj_veterans_seek_help_for_ptsd_decades_after_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47113","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Veterans Seek Help for PTSD Decades After War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nightmares of a friend dying beside him in a bunker years ago now waken Donald Vitkus. \u201cThere is stuff that you carry from the war,\u201d\u009d the 71-year-old Vietnam veteran said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vitkus spends his days in and out of therapy at a residential rehabilitation center filled with mostly older veterans, working on his memory while trying to gain control over disturbing recollections and the emotions they surface.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of hundreds of thousands of aging Vietnam veterans who late in life are now seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder\u201d\u201da mix of flashbacks, depression and sleeplessness springing from a war that ended four decades ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/vets-seek-help-for-ptsd-decades-after-war-1417203812\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightmares of a friend dying beside him in a bunker years ago now waken Donald Vitkus. \u201cThere is stuff that you carry from the war,\u201d\u009d the 71-year-old Vietnam veteran said. Mr. Vitkus spends his days in and out of therapy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47113\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,143,168,104,133,98,106,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-military-armed-forces","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}