Combat Stress

"Our vision is simple: that our Armed Forces community has good mental health."

Today, our CEO Chloe Mackay introduces Combat Stress's new strategy, a clear plan built around four priorities: building resilience, earlier diagnosis and intervention, specialist treatment and recovery, and long-term management beyond treatment.

Read our new strategy: combatstress.org.uk/about-us/strat…

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Today is World Mental Health Day.

For many veterans, the impact of military service can continue long after leaving the Armed Forces. There is an average gap of 14 years between leaving military service and receiving treatment for PTSD

But support is available, and recovery is possible.

At Combat Stress, we provide clinically regulated, life-changing mental health treatment to veterans living with PTSD and the lasting impact of military trauma.

Through clearer messaging, education and improved access routes, we'll help veterans reach support before reaching crisis point.

This World Mental Health Day, check in, listen without judgement and remind the veterans in your life that support is available and recovery is possible.

Call our free, confidential Helpline on 0800 138 1619, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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Are you a veteran who has experienced a mental health difficulty?

Your insight could help shape more effective, veteran-informed mental health care in the future.

Take our short confidential online survey (which you can stop at any time): surveymonkey.com/r/VQHZTFY?msoc…

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Last week we announced the launch of our new strategy. Have you read it yet?

Visit our website to read the full report: combatstress.org.uk/about-us/strat…

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This World Mental Health Day, Combat Stress needs you for Brew and Bake!

A cuppa might seem simple, but in the military, a brew is tradition, comfort shared through the coldest deployments and longest shifts.

Here's how to take part: set a date, pop the kettle on and invite friends and family round for tea and cake. Ask for donations in return, and you'll be raising money for veterans' mental health while you're at it.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/brewandbake-lo…

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