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Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:26 |
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The most dangerous place for a soldier is not a battlefield — it's a psychiatrist couch.
Modern medicine is remarkably talented in saving physically injured soldiers. Modern psychiatry is equally able in sacrificing those with psychological wounds.
Much of that harm tracks to medications lavishly thrown at struggling vets. The American Medical Association confirms psychoactive drugs as no more effective than sugar pills in treating most depressions. Nonetheless, with motives familiar to street dealers and bartenders, medical practitioners continue to promote voodoo pharmaceutics that enable underlying problems to hide, fester, and solidify.
Other ill-advised responses to what is commonly called post-traumatic stress disorder add further insult to injury. There is nothing about this condition conveying permanence, but just like a spinal injury, mishandling can make it so. Facing trauma and moving forward is a good thing. Enabling the traumatized to build an identity around their suffering is a very bad thing.
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