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MRFF and Veterans For Common Sense Send Demand Letter to Sec. of Defense Robert Gates
– August 9, 2010
I don’t know how long it normally takes for a cabinet member to respond to something like this, but I’ll be very interested in it when he does. I think the work you are doing is very courageous and I thank you for providing a window into a culture of which I, a civilian, am largely ignorant.
My experience with military “mental health” treatment does not recommend treatment by psychiatry. Read for example;Mass Murderers in White Coats : Psychiatric Genocide in Nazi Germany and the United States by Lenny Lapon. I’m not at all here saying that a preacher is qualified to act in a PTSD counseling role in preference to a the/rapist. I’m saying that neither should be foisted on the soldier or vet. When the effort to proselytize me was going on, the first ultimatum I received was that if I did not as join their group and observe their practices,I would be sent to a prison or mental hospital. I ultimately did wind up in the latter, where I was locked up, forcibly drugged, shocked, labeled and then dumped with a psychiatric history that along with a negative spn code (which I wasn’t informed of till years later) which destroyed my career opportunities. These were all part of the climate of fear and punishment, wherein so called therapy was the front for further efforts to proselytize. What one needs in such instances is not a therapist or preacher, but a legal advocate and policy to evacuate targets to a safe location.
Given the complexity of the problems our military members deal with given this long war, memtal health AND chaplains are needed. I’ve yet to meet chaplains as you’ve described which leads me to believe most of this is made up to drive another agenda.
(Re; the previous comment); So if the substance cannot be argued, the ad hominum appears. Just because one has not had an experience does not mean the experience of others didn’t happen. The only agenda I see here is the first ammendment to the U.S. Constitution. The only thing “made up” here is the mudslingers name.