PTSD & Psychosis Among Army Psychiatrists: Reprise

They're Either Lying or Dumb.

Courtesy: legaljuice.com

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I wrote the original article, PTSD and Psychosis Among Army Psychiatrists December 7th, 2007 for Salem-News.com. I browse past articles to see comments by readers coming in months after the posting. Here are two comments coming in 6 months later. These are important enough to post:

Zachary: I was in the Marine Corps stationed in Washington D.C., before and after 9/11, and let me tell you, there is A LOT of drug use going on where I was stationed at, Marine Barracks 8th & I. Lots of alcoholics too.

I think our military really needs to get its act together and offer drug/alcohol treatment and counceling instead of jail time and getting kicked out.

It’s a disgrace, whats going to happen to the person afterwords? I say we need to offer treatment, because it should say a lot that someone would risk their career and future just for such a short term fix, that they need our help, god bless our sons and daughters!!!

Rhonda: Col. Elspeth Richie, Army Psychiatrist, said “That has not been my experience. My psychiatrists and social workers who see soldiers report to me of their experiences with soldiers all the time, and none of them are seeing that particular explanation.” (For Battle Caused PTSD?)

I have to add, the reason she claims the Army has not seen it is because the “professionals” the V.A. and the Army train to treat our soldiers, are trained NOT to see it. My son kept telling me the V.A. counselors were asking him the same questions over and over.

These questions were from non-trained laymen, and involved my son relating to them some “incidents” that he thought might have caused him to have PTSD. This was very painful for my son, as this is the LAST thing a soldier wants to do fresh from a war and without medication.

I went to his first and only appointment to the V.A. psychiatrist and was appalled. She repeated this same request to verbally relate any “incidents” that he felt might have “bothered him”. He didn’t hold back.

The whole session was a nightmare. She berated my son for telling her that he would drink to pass out several times a month, and told him he had an alcohol problem. Really? What about the demons in his mind problem? Not a word.

THE ARMY & VA TREATMENT IS WORSE THAN THE BATTLE TRAUMA THAT CAUSED IT!!!

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