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Specialist Alex Lotero said his superiors treated his diagnosis disdainfully, showering him with obscenities and accusing him of insubordination when he missed training for doctors' appointments.
"They belittled my condition," he said. "They told me I was broke, that I didn't have anything left."



On leave from Iraq, Lotero asked his hometown tattoo artist for a tired, dirty and disturbed soldier on his arm. "This is how I feel right now," he said.



Lt. Colonel Laurel Anderson, a psychiatric nurse, talks at the Fort Carson Soldier Readiness Center to a soldier who has just returned from Iraq to gauge his mental health. Fort Carson is under scrutiny for handling of post-traumatic stress disorder cases.



Colonel John Cho, commander of the Evans U.S. Army Hospital at Ft. Carson, Colo., disputed the assertion that problems at Fort Carson were widespread. "We're never going to fully eliminate the stigma associated with P.T.S.D., but the leadership at Carson has been fully supportive of getting soldiers they help they need," he said.


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