Citation

McNally RJ, Frueh BC. J. Anxiety Disord. 2013; 27(5): 520-526.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 2138, United States. Electronic address: rjm@wjh.harvard.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.janxdis.2013.07.002

PMID

23954726

Abstract

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced historically low rates of fatalities, injuries, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among U.S. combatants. Yet they have also produced historically unprecedented rates of PTSD disability compensation seeking from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The purpose of this article is to consider hypotheses that might potentially resolve this paradox, including high rates of PTSD, delayed onset PTSD, malingered PTSD, and economic variables.

Language: en