Artikel AP di sini menarik, sebab penyebabnya tidak diketahui apakah karena efek psikologis seperti stress dan semacamnya, ataukah “demons” seperti istilah yang dipakai dalam artikel tersebut.

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A photograph taken in the first days of the war had made the medic from New York’s Long Island a symbol of the United States’ good intentions in the Middle East. When he returned home, he was hailed as a hero.

But for most of the past five years, the 31-year-old soldier had writhed in a private hell, shooting at imaginary enemies and dodging nonexistent roadside bombs, sleeping in a closet bunker and trying desperately to huff away the “demons” in his head. When his personal problems became public, efforts were made to help him, but nothing seemed to work.

This broken, frightened man had once been the embodiment of American might and compassion.

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