{"id":31171,"date":"2015-03-19T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31171"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:31:31","slug":"former-soldier-on-moral-injury-and-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/former-soldier-on-moral-injury-and-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Soldier on Moral Injury and PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Gibbons-Neff of Georgetown University pens a fascinating read on moral injury, a reaction to war distinct from, but often confused with, post traumatic stress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moral injury is a nebulous term that few use seriously because it doesn\u2019t read well on Veterans Affairs claims. It\u2019s a new term but not a new concept. Moral injury is as timeless as war \u2014 going back to when Ajax thrust himself upon his sword on the shores of Troy. Unlike post-traumatic stress, which is a result of a fear-conditioned response, moral injury is a feeling of existential disorientation that manifests as intense guilt&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As discussed here many times, moral <!--more-->injury can be a sometimes nebulous concept, though it may be far more common than is realized.\u00a0 (One study said <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/study-top-cause-of-ptsd-is-moral-guilt\/\">the number one cause of PTSD<\/a> was actually moral injury.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At its core, moral injury is\u00a0an issue of morality, leading to the logical conclusion that, to some extent, religion may very well <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/religious-leaders-seek-to-help-with-moral-injury\/\">play a role<\/a> in treating it.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/haunted-by-their-decisions-in-war\/2015\/03\/06\/db1cc404-c129-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/opinion\/why-distinguishing-a-moral-injury-from-ptsd-is-important-1.333520\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Gibbons-Neff of Georgetown University pens a fascinating read on moral injury, a reaction to war distinct from, but often confused with, post traumatic stress. Moral injury is a nebulous term that few use seriously because it doesn\u2019t read well on Veterans Affairs claims. It\u2019s a new term but not a new concept. Moral injury is as timeless as war [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2,1165,225,10,5061],"class_list":["post-31171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-military","tag-moral-injury","tag-ptsd","tag-religion","tag-thomas-gibbons-neff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}