[HN Gopher] VA: What Is Moral Injury?
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       VA: What Is Moral Injury?
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-07-11 13:04 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ptsd.va.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ptsd.va.gov)
        
       | co_pilates wrote:
       | My personal moral injury occurred when I had spent my best decade
       | in the military, had an issue with depression, then my entire
       | chain of command and ask of my friends in the service stopped
       | talking to me and transferred me to another command where they
       | shoved me in a room alone with no windows to suffer and
       | eventually do what I had to to quit, aka trying to kill myself,
       | because they wouldn't let me leave to do something other than sit
       | in that room. I had always thought they were my family and that
       | military folks always took care of each other, but I found out
       | quickly I was just a warm body. It destroyed my sense of
       | community and I still have problems making close friends.
       | 
       | Love the VA big brain article about this when they are a part of
       | the system that absolutely FUCKS it's own people. Luckily now,
       | I'm starting to feel more like myself before they screwed me, it
       | only took a decade after I stopped seeing the VA quack.
        
       | jimmygrapes wrote:
       | When the moral trauma is a result of (or was contributed to by)
       | things that are socially acceptable, I do not have any faith in
       | any therapist.
       | 
       | A simple example from experience: if a man was abused by a man
       | who thinks he is a woman (transgender), the therapy would not
       | focus on affirmation for the patient; it would focus on making
       | the patient accept that the man was indeed a woman and the
       | patient needs to be more open minded, less bigoted.
        
       | 1MachineElf wrote:
       | A big factor in the clinical depression I struggled with
       | beginning in 2015 was leaving a job and career path that family
       | and friends had supported me with in big ways, and going to a
       | higher paying, comfortable, and yet socially disconnected job in
       | it's place. On paper, I was making a better move, but everything
       | about it felt wrong. While it's not the same as veteran's PTSD, I
       | feel that _moral injury_ is an accurate description of what
       | occured with me. I believe American society is full of perverse
       | incentives that create moral injury for anyone just trying to
       | survive.
       | 
       | Thanks for sharing - it's a concept I'm familiar with but lacked
       | the words to describe.
        
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