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Vets with PTSD strain cities' services
This city, like many across the nation, faces a wave of military veterans asking for help with mental health problems related to duty in combat zones.
Military and veterans health-care officials are trying to keep up, but some of those soldiers are being referred to community mental health systems that may already be crowded.
Beaumont Army Medical Center has been referring hundreds more soldiers struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, severe depression and other problems into private mental health centers.
In 2008, Beaumont referred 292 patients. As of this July, it already has referred 525, medical center officials said.