Mental Health and Well-Being
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"It is important that continuous support is provided, especially during transition to civilian life and beyond, to ensure that veterans are able to access any support they need when they need it"
Professor Nicola Fear, Co-Director of King's Centre for Military Health Research
Recent research from King's College London estimates the rate of PTSD among UK veterans of all conflicts to be 7.4%. The rate of PTSD among the public is 4%. This rate is even higher for those veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Rough Sleeping Strategy revealed that 6% of UK Nationals who responded to the National Rough Sleeping Questionnaire in 2020 said they had served in the Armed Forces, 2% in London.
We wish to help our Veterans overcome the stigma that exists around mental health and, give support to stop an individual’s mental ill health from getting worse. Through guidance and appropriate treatment and other professional sources, we will work with services that can promote recovery of an individual’s good mental health.
Mental Health and Well-Being support is being developed with partner organisations, ensuring that our Veterans have access to a range of specialist services that can meet their individual needs.
Our referral partners for mental health
Free, Prompt and Effective treatment
for Military
Post-Traumatic Stress
PTSD Resolution, Charity No. 1133188, provides therapy for the mental welfare of Forces’ Veterans, Reservists and their families. Treatment is free, effective and delivered promptly and locally through a network of 200 therapists nationwide, and also by phone and internet.
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The charity can also work with organisations to help the mental welfare of their non-veteran staff, by arrangement.
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Founded in 2009, the charity is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to the Quality Network for Veterans Mental Health Services (QNVMHS). It has had over 3,500 referrals to date, and delivers therapy in an average of seven sessions, with 78 per cent of cases seeing an improvement to where the client and therapist agree that no further therapy is required.
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The charity is one of the only organisations to provide therapy to veterans suffering with addiction issues or who are in prison - as well as to family members, including partners and children, who may experience the symptoms of trauma from living with a traumatised veteran.
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PTSD Resolution has a uniquely ‘lean’ operation, with no salaried staff or assets - funds are used to deliver therapy and for essential research and public information.
‘I was thrown on to the slag heap by the MOD, but now a weight has been lifted’
How a decorated soldier stricken with post-traumatic stress disorder has found new hope, with help from PTSD Resolution.
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An article in the Sunday Telegraph, 16th June 2024, reported how Major Wayne Owers, a decorated Afghanistan veteran and a distinguished 27-year career in the Army, rose through the ranks to become a highly respected bomb disposal officer, earning three prestigious honours from the Queen. However, his journey took an unexpected turn when he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), leading to a prescription for antidepressants and a medical discharge that left him feeling discarded and lost.
After just six sessions of free human givens therapy provided via a referral from charity, PTSD Resolution, Major Owers reported a remarkable change in his life.
“I’ve now had six sessions and my life has been transformed. I can honestly say the treatment is revolutionary. My nightmares are subsiding. My OCD has diminished hugely and I no longer get anxious.
“I want to get the message out there and tell any veterans or their dependents who still have PTSD to get in touch with PTSD Resolution. They offer free therapy and it has changed my life and many others’ more,” he says. “For the first time in years, I feel happy and contented, like a huge weight has been lifted.”
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