ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Issue: Psychiatric and Neurologic Aspects of War Buddy-to-Buddy, a citizen soldier peer support program to counteract stigma, PTSD, depression, and suicide
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John F. Greden,1,3 Marcia Valenstein,1,2 Jane Spinner,1 Adrian Blow,4 Lisa A. Gorman,4 Gregory W. Dalack,1 Sheila Marcus,1 and Michelle Kees1 1University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry and Comprehensive Depression Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 3Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 4Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan
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Buddy-to-Buddy, a citizen soldier peer support program to counteract stigma, PTSD, depression, and suicide.
Citizen soldiers (National Guard and Reserves) represent approximately 40% of the two million armed forces deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. Twenty-five to forty percent of them develop PTSD, clinical depression, sleep disturbances, or suicidal thoughts. Upon returning home, many encounter additional stresses and hurdles to obtaining care: specifically, many civilian communities lack military m...
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