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Evening Standard
Health
Stanley Murphy-Johns

BIZARRE: Model making classes helping veterans manage mental health issues - What They Never Told You

Models for Heroes runs 62 group sessions across the UK (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

Ex-servicemen and women are using the therapeutic benefits of scale modelling to help combat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions, it has been reported.

Mental disorders were listed as one of the “most common” reasons for armed forces discharge in a report published by the Ministry of Defence this year.

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