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Women Veterans: Help for Postpartum Depression. Pregnant Women Veterans have an increased likelihood of a mental health issue and a higher risk for postpartum depression. Learn the symptoms and treatment options from VA's Women's Health Services. Ref. Source 8e.

Veterans Female

There is always focus on the men so its good to see our women are being taken care of too because they give as much if not more than we do.

Female Veterans History & Civil Business Politics

Willis,

Spot on. They have it every bit as hard as the men and in the kind of wars we are in they face the same dangers. Plus, women are in roles now they never were in past wars, so they are often right in the thick of things.

Veterans Female

She Needed Someone to Listen. VA Did. Compassionate counselors at the Huntington VA proved to be a lifeline for a woman Veteran in deep trouble, and desperately in need of someone to listen. Need help? Call the Women Veterans Call Center at 1.855.VA.WOMEN. Source 1n.

Veterans Female

It is always nice to see any veteran get the help they need. Our Female veterans are usually over looked but they need just as much help as the guys do. Too often the veterans are over looked or have to wait way too long to get seen.

Female Veterans

Sadly, not all situations ends as happy. To many veterans, female and male, end up without any support or cannot bring themselves to call it in time, before something happens.

Female Veterans

Yes that is the main issue with the VA. Too often they make the veterans jump through a lot of red tape and other things to make them prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were in combat at a certain time and a certain place when it is next to impossible to prove it so the VA can just turn them away.

Female veterans suffer just as bad and at times worse than some of the male veterans. Like all veterans they need the support of others just as much.

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Women, Depression and Heart Disease. A joint study by VA and Boston University School of Medicine has found that women Veterans with depression had a 60 percent greater chance of having coronary artery disease than those without depression. Source 7s.