by Wayne Finegar | Mar 19, 2018 | Moral Injury, PTSD
Last month, Oxford University Press’ Military Medicine published a study about military service members who seek medical services, including mental health services, outside of the military. With approximately 20 veteran and 1 active duty suicides per day, serious...
by Wayne Finegar | Nov 22, 2017 | Moral Injury, PTSD
Bowe Bergdahl likely suffers with moral injury. Symptoms of moral injury include feelings of shame or guilt for events that are in conflict with a person’s essential inner moral code and that may have occurred outside of that individual’s control. Nonetheless, the...
by Wayne Finegar | Oct 3, 2017 | and Conflation with Patriotism, Moral Injury, PTSD
A tragic standoff with police and death of the barricaded individual occurred a few days ago in North Carolina. More details were released in a Fayetteville Observer article, today. A few things stand out in the article: The veteran who barricaded himself and shot at...
