Health Affairs January 8, 2019
The way that veterans have been portrayed throughout the years has regularly relied on stereotypes and false narratives. From Rambo to Taxi Driver, a commonly repeated theme is that veterans return home broken, mentally disabled, and likely violent.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Though veterans are more likely to experience trauma during their time in service than others do, they hardly have a monopoly on mental health issues. For example, 25 million Americans, approximately 7–8 percent of the population, will have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lives. This is nearly 3 million people more than the total number of veterans in our country today.
While most veterans transition successfully back into civilian society from...
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