Combat Stress

Key Facts

  • Combat Stress is the leading UK charity specialising in the treatment of Service-related mental illness.
  • Founded in May 1919, we have supported almost 100,000 Veterans of every campaign that British Forces have been involved in since the First World War.
  • We are currently caring for 3,800 ex-Service men and women, including 222 from the Iraq conflict and 37 from Afghanistan.  Our youngest Veteran is only 20.
  • 81.5% of our Veterans are ex-Army.
  • On average it takes 13.7 years from Service discharge for Veterans to make the first-step approach to Combat Stress for help. 
  • Approximately 60% of our Veterans suffer from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).  Other and co-existing conditions include depression, alcohol and/or drug abuse, anxiety and phobic disorders.
  • To help our Veterans rebuild their lives, we provide two key services:
  1. A nationwide welfare operation, delivered locally through a network of Regional Welfare Officers, all ex-Service men and women themselves.
  2. Specialist clinical treatment – within a unique and entirely safe, peer group setting – at one of our short-stay residential centres in Ayrshire, Shropshire and Surrey.

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To contact us, or for more information, please call 01292 561300 or visit http://www.combatstress.org.uk/.