Virtual Iraq

"Virtual Iraq" by Sue Halpern is about a soldier thats returning from Iraq where he was stationed where he underwent a lot of significance events that when he returned he started suffering from a disease called PTSD which its defined as a isadebilitation disease the encompasses every aspect of your life.This is an ongoing disease that's been increasing with returning war soldiers. Halpern talks about a virtual theroputic technique which helps people with these disease to get rid of those fears. Halpern states that "Strictly speaking, using virtual reality to threat combat-related PTSD is not new. In 1997, more than twenty years after the Vietnam war ended, researches in atlanta unveiled virtual vietnam."The way this method works is that soldiers are put in a virtual world where slowly the therapist through a computer begins to add event or situations that a soldier may expect to be in; the treatment can take weeks which in the end people would actually see improvements.