Test Subjects ...
Posted on 11/09/2009 7:07:42 AM PST by raybbr
In the first study of its kind, Women’s Health Research at Yale will examine whether women soldiers have more trouble adjusting to post-war life than men.
Rani Desai, associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, is the principal investigator. She also is in charge of evaluating post-traumatic stress disorder treatment programs in the Veterans Affairs Department nationwide.
“The point is really to look at whether men and women differ in their post-deployment experiences,” Desai said. This is the opportune time for such a study because Iraq and Afghanistan are the first wars in which significant numbers of women have seen combat.
Of 2 million Americans who have fought in the two wars, about 220,000 have been women, according to a press release.
The pilot study will look at whether there are sex differences in cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, drug and nicotine use, Desai said, following 20 to 30 men and women for a year.
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Hmmmm... It's having a good effect on me.
The answer to the study will be “yes”, and that they need mega-funds to fix the problem and study it some more.
LOL!
We don’t need a “study” on that.
Just ask any female that returned from war and also one that had been captured. If getting raped and abused is your thing - go sign up! If personal hygiene doesn’t isn’t an issue with females that are, well, having their “friend” visit - well by all means be in combat and carry some “supplies” with you because the enemy isn’t going to help you as they RAPE you and TORTURE you. Females are wired differently emotionally as well. But heck, believe genders are the same ... LOL!
A culture that puts women in harm’s way demeans itself.
I wonder if they all stay in the same barracks. I would surely not want to be around that barracks one week a month.
This has unintentional humor possibilities given Yale’s political correctness.
No need for a study. I already know what the results will be. The shrinks will demand more billions of dollars so they can drug more millions of people. Eventually everyone is diagnosed as mentally ill.
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