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Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 6:41 p.m.

Author Matt Green shares his unique perspective as an embedded reporter with U.S. troops in Iraq, as well as his observations from working with returning British veterans. He has spent the past 14 years working as a correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters and has reported from more than 30 countries, most recently Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he investigated subjects including the money men bankrolling the Taliban and the kingpins behind Pakistan's heroin trade.

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After studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford University, Matthew began his career with Reuters, working in east and west Africa and in Iraq, where he was embedded with US Marines during the invasion in 2003.

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He later joined the Financial Times, working in Nigeria and then Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he spent time with US forces deployed to Helmand and Kandahar provinces in the Obama administration's troop surge.

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Matthew is now based in London and appears regularly as a commentator on the BBC News Channel and World Service radio, and writes for publications including Monocle magazine and the Literary Review. His first book was The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Joseph Kony, which won a Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature and was long-listed for the Orwell Prize.

\nIN THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:\n

Similarities between Coalition Forces veteran mental health and U.S. veteran mental health

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The gap between resources available and the ability to access those services

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Stigma and the military mindset

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Posttraumatic Growth, and the danger of relying on the concept of posttraumatic growth as a "positive" that comes out of trauma.

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Going beyond PTSD to the other mental health concerns

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The benefit of Peer Support in recovery and stigma reduction

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The impact of the psychological injury on military families

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