For Our Returning Troops, Post-Traumatic Sleep Disorders Are the New PTSD
Published on October 22, 2015 Sleep deprivation during military deployment is archaic, harmful, and institutionally unavoidable. It may aggravate, and even cause, PTSD in veterans returning from combat, reports Van Winkle’s. The root of veterans’ chronic insomnia, and the PTSD that often develops alongside it, isn’t a disorder that can be cured as part of their post-discharge adjustment. It’s a symptom of larger problems that begin during deployment itself. The military indoctrinates healthy American adults into a “culture of sleep deprivation” that persists throughout their careers, says Shattuck, who works at the Naval Postgraduate Center in Monterrey, California. She says …
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