My personal moral injury occurred when I had spent my best decade in the military, had an issue with depression, then my entire chain of command and ask of my friends in the service stopped talking to me and transferred me to another command where they shoved me in a room alone with no windows to suffer and eventually do what I had to to quit, aka trying to kill myself, because they wouldn't let me leave to do something other than sit in that room. I had always thought they were my family and that military folks always took care of each other, but I found out quickly I was just a warm body. It destroyed my sense of community and I still have problems making close friends.Love the VA big brain article about this when they are a part of the system that absolutely FUCKS it's own people. Luckily now, I'm starting to feel more like myself before they screwed me, it only took a decade after I stopped seeing the VA quack.
pjbeam|4 years ago