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intertribalMental Stress Training Is Planned for U.S. Soldiers
The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
“For years, the military has been saying, ‘Oh, my God, a suicide, what do we do now?’ ” said Col. Darryl Williams, the program’s deputy director. “It was reactive. It’s time to change that.”
In the short-run it is indeed good to give returning soldiers mental health care - and it is always good to provide this for their families, who (esp. the children) did not choose to participate in the great carnival of death at all. After all, we don't want them to kill more people stateside. But in the long-run, of course, it is the epitome of a band-aid for a bullet hole.
And preventive mental resiliency? What is that, convince yourself it's ok to kill people? Awesome. For all their guided missiles the military misses the point a lot.
Arguably, however, this is a flaw of psychiatry/therapy in general.
The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
“For years, the military has been saying, ‘Oh, my God, a suicide, what do we do now?’ ” said Col. Darryl Williams, the program’s deputy director. “It was reactive. It’s time to change that.”
In the short-run it is indeed good to give returning soldiers mental health care - and it is always good to provide this for their families, who (esp. the children) did not choose to participate in the great carnival of death at all. After all, we don't want them to kill more people stateside. But in the long-run, of course, it is the epitome of a band-aid for a bullet hole.
And preventive mental resiliency? What is that, convince yourself it's ok to kill people? Awesome. For all their guided missiles the military misses the point a lot.
Arguably, however, this is a flaw of psychiatry/therapy in general.
