How to heal moral injury? It's much easier to avoid it, to block it out, let it bleeds from the inside...and continue with the fight outside.
How to heal moral injury? It's much easier to avoid it, to block it out, let it bleeds from the inside...and continue with the fight outside.
I'm not sure how to answer this comment.
I figure you have no real concept of what a soldier goes through in battle and so don't really know how to address the results of it. If you'd like to understand a little more you can read a book called, On killing by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. If you manage to get through it feel free to come back and comment on this post again.
I've lost many military friends to suicide after their battle with PTSD...Fortunately none of them were given advice like yours.
Let me know how you go with the book.
What I wrote is not really to seek an answer and it's not any advice to any soldier.
I am sure I won't ever fully understand the battles and pain they've gone through. But I can imagine some of their constant struggle during and after the fights, just from reading your story here or many other books/movies I've had a chance to read/watch and think about.
And my thoughts and prayers go to the soldiers who bravely fight the war but have such a hard time adjusting when they come back home. And it's usually overlooked or unaware of by normal citizen like I am.
That's why every time the topic of PTSD comes to my attention, I always wonder how the soldiers heal afterwards? How to help, at a deeper level than what we have now? Or even to offer some understanding and comfort for sharing?
The fact that there are many soldiers' suicide means we haven't done enough at helping or even understanding their struggle.
To clarify, my comment is more a question raised for myself as I feel the pain and struggle, but don't know even where to start to help...
It must be hard for you to personally lose many friends...Thanks for sharing and keep on writing!