Rossana Cambran choked back tears as she recalled watching her son, Arturo Cambron Jr., suffer a flashback. The now-26-year-old Army soldier was at home on leave in between combat tours in Iraq. He had just returned from a night out with friends when something triggered a memory from a not-so-distant but traumatic past.

Often, the wounds are not as obvious as a lost limb or a scar. Of the nearly 2 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002, an estimated half-million have been diagnosed with brain injuries, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.

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From The Soldiers Project

Los Angeles – May 7, 2008 – More than half of the estimated 300,000 military service members who are suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorders, and traumatic brain injury are going without treatment because of the gaps in mental health care and stigma issues, according to RAND Corporation’s 500-page independent study on the prevalence of psychological injuries.