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Subject:
PTSD emotional results of combat V. child abuse
ker
8/11/2007 6:37:47 PM
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I have a degree in clinical Psycology and am a foster parent for children who have Post Tramatic Stress Disorder. I hope that a distintion can be made between the terms we use to discribe the train young adult solger who survives combat and the terms we use to describe the young and very young childeren who survive rape, torcher, starvation and/or attempted murder at the hands of their parents/step parents/T-ball coach ect.
I feel it is good for society and important for the military to creat some seperation between these problems. In an envirment of psycological and law warfare infantalizing the American solger lumping him or her together with victoms of child hood sexual abuse is risky.
I sujest that the military begin using a term like Combat Ready Emotional Condition (CREC). Every person who had been in or seriously prepaired for combat would have a CREC level. monetering and improving your CREC would be part of every ones just like their cardo conditioning, education and rifle range score. CREC training would not be filled with poeple who already had a problem they couldn't hide any more like a DUI arest. It would not be remeadeal care for those already in danger of washing out. It would be something that you braged about like getting a master degree or doing more pushups than anyone in the platoon. More like going to the gym than going to the pricipals office for disiplin. The core concepts of CREC would come from military haratage and social servace mental health modles from prisons, privat practice and hospitals would be used only in subordanet roles.
Other wise the military is standing still wile some one tries to drop a safe on their head by saying that sending private Smith to combat was an act of crimanal abuse by the comand struture.
The emotional wounds of combat are very real. It is good to veiw them as being the work of the enemy and not of the comander. |
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