After a long 6 years of war, veterans come home and try to lead a normal life, only to find they cannot sleep, and they cannot even lead a normal life. All they can think about is the time they spent in battle and seeing their friends being torn up into pieces. They have a spiraling and crumpling depression stage, and then they want to die. Is that the way citizens want the people who fought for the country to think? PTSD is a terrible state of depression that most veterans are suffering from. More funding should be provided for veterans with PTSD because there are not enough clinics, the woman get even less funding, and suicide rates are higher among them. To better understand why funding is needed for research, one must understand what the …show more content…
Veterans need to have proper health care clinics so they can get the right help; without any place to go they can not get help. A representative from the The Departments of Veterans Affairs’ Center states. “[The] […] VA's mental health budget doubled [however] […] 6 million veterans [are] without health centers […] [today]”(Ford). The budget for them has gone up, but somehow the veterans are still not getting the treatment they deserve. Information from the VA office make it hard to look past the fact that veterans are still not getting the proper care they deserve. Likewise “[…] 20% of veterans have PTSD, less than 45% are getting adequate treatment”(Ford). Adequate treatment is very important for PTSD because if it's not treated it could lead to a debilitating problem. PTSD is like replaying a tragic event over and over again. It makes it hard for people to look past the event and it makes it hard for people to remember facts in their everyday life. It consumes and messes up its victims’ lives making it really hard to live. It can be treated, but if the treatment is not right it can make it worse. More treatment centers are needed to help well over 6 million veterans with PTSD. Without proper care, they can't improve and move on with