As if raising kids wasn’t challenging enough, imagine doing so while also dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress. For some military vets — men and women — there’s no imagining required.
“When a parent has symptoms of PTSD,” says Dr. Suzannah Creech, an Austin, Texas-based VA psychologist, "they’re more likely to report parent-child functioning issues like increased stress in their parenting, poorer satisfaction in their parenting, and... that their parent-child relationship is just not the way that they’d like it to be."
As the VA offers online training courses to help parents with PTSD — Dr. Creech and her colleagues are researching the problem. She described that work to CBS Eye on Veterans: