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‘These people are going to bend over backwards to get you to the point where you can stand straight and…
Mental health issues such as depression, stress, anxiety and bipolar can be highly debilitating. Due to a lack of awareness…
Veterans’ mental health charity Combat Stress launches a £10 million appeal today, Monday 13 May, to meet the increasing demand…
Veterans’ mental health charity Combat Stress launches a new campaign on Monday (29 April) to reveal the devastating isolation experienced…
Each year, those who serve our country are assessed to study their mental health, taking their highly responsible and dangerous…
Andrew Taylor struggled to adapt to civilian life when injury ended his military career. Angry, frustrated and withdrawn, for four…
Combat Stress is honoured to have been selected as the chosen charity of next year’s Army v Navy rugby match…
The UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health, Combat Stress, has been announced as the charity partner of this year’s…
To help former servicemen and women with mental health problems, Combat Stress have a unique nationwide Peer Support Service.
A group of veterans have shared their experiences of living with military-related trauma in a new short film for Combat…
Mental illness is common and can affect anyone (even Serving and ex-members of the Armed Forces and their families). Whilst…
Are you struggling to cope? Are you brave enough to seek help? The NHS has dedicated veterans’ mental health services that…
The NHS Veterans’ Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service is here for you. If you think you or your…
The NHS has a range of dedicated services for Veterans. This includes the Veterans’ Trauma Network, which provides care and…
Bestselling author, explorer and photographer Levison Wood, visited the UK’s leading charity for veterans mental health on Wednesday to talk…
New research published by SSAFA, The Armed Forces charity, has revealed that less than 1% of the personnel currently serving…
Military charities call on Ministry of Defence to provide more support for ‘weekend warriors’ Ministers must find more money to support thousands of army reservists as evidence grows that part-timers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to suffer from serious mental health illnesses than regular soldiers who served alongside them, two leading military charities are warning. Amid concerns there will be a sharp increase in the overall number of veterans needing expert help over the next five years, the Royal British Legion and Combat Stress say the government must focus on the so-called “weekend warriors” who have become a mainstay of British military operations and will be used to cover deep cuts to the full-time army
The Medical Assessment Programme (MAP) – a veteran’s mental health service – is moving from London to the Department of Community Mental Health Chilwell, in Nottingham, and has been renamed the Veterans and Reserves Mental Health Programme (VRMHP).
In a stark diversion from his traditional role, a Company Sergeant Major in Helmand is helping his unit to talk through any problems they may have and overcome any mental health issues.