Deployment Takes Toll on Army Wives

[HuckleB]

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/634928.html

"War isn't just tough on soldiers. Army wives whose husbands were deployed have higher rates of depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and other mental health issues than the wives of soldiers who stayed home, a new study shows.

Researchers looked at the medical records of more than 250,000 wives, accounting for most women married to active-duty U.S. Army personnel.

Between 2003 and 2006, about 34 percent of the women's husbands deployed for one to 11 months, 35 percent deployed for longer than 11 months, while 31 percent of soldiers were not sent overseas.

Among wives of soldiers deployed for up to 11 months, researchers found almost 3,500 more diagnoses of depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and other mental health issues than among wives who husbands stayed home.

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Not really a surprise, but this is something that is seldom addressed in the media, though it certainly should be.

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[HuckleB]

2. Thanks, and great photo!

[HuckleB]

3. Kick.

[midnight]

4. For our military and their families we can never repay the scarifies that have

been demanded of you over and over.... That's why they should not have ANY hurdles to get access to health care, food, education, housing..

[HuckleB]

5. Indeed.

[Orsino]

6. News flash.

Deployment has always been tough on spouses and families. Always.

We've just made them comfortably invisible.

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Yep, got 'em all.

As long as they don't take away the Xanax, I'm O.K.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. My husband still says I had the tougest job in the Navy

:-)

After all I had time to thing, he didn't.