Mental stress

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk Traumatised troops get payout pittance after Afghanistan and Iraq Neil Christie felt the army washed its hands of him Since November 2005 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid 155 mentally traumatised soldiers, who experience delusions, hallucinations, flashbacks and severe depression, an average of just under £6,000, according to official figures. Four others received payments above £9,075. Sir John Major, the former prime minister, is so concerned by the low payouts that he has written to Gordon Brown to object in what aides describe as “the strongest possible terms”.

I cannot agree with some blogs about the causes of so much stress for soldiers, but I wholehearted concur that any compensation is derisory.