The History of Moral Injury

A report on the history of moral injury, based on research from KCMHR, released by King’s College London and Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT).

[aaronpaterson]

I have only just inquired about moral injury. This is exactly how I’ve been feeling regarding my injury. As a Correctional Officer with over 23 years experience I have seen a lot and suffered a lot.
More needs to be done regarding this type of injury amongst Correctional officers worldwide.
Thank you for sharing.

[pontifixmax]

I worked in an acute care hospital all through the pandemic. Before that, I worked in a homeless shelter, which was ground zero for the opioid overdose crisis, lots of violence, as well as caring for refugees and countless individuals living with serious addictions and mental illness. Interestingly, I don't believe I live with moral injury since, as the video stated, making sense of why injustices happen is the cure for moral injury. I did that decades ago when I accepted that, despite my best efforts, the world is a fundamentally unjust place which I alone can't fix. Realism is what's saved me from experiencing moral injury.

[ΚυριακήΘωίδου]

So interesting! The way the video was presented is more attractive and educational

[brodijed]

So how do you get over moral injury when the system crucifies you in the investigation for a major design flaw in a rebuild?

[dyscotopia]

Clearly, the answer is to follow the example of our leaders and ensure we have no morals left to injure

[jenniferreesdavies]

This is something every employer needs to protect staff from isn't it. Particularly with mental health providers nurses should be given right to conscientiously object IMO
When it's difficult for you to act remember short term pain for long term gain. The converse applies too.

[mollyhoffman]

How about when you simply act out and cause a scene because you were told that you were "too ambitious, " and then you were prevented from reaching your dream in some way and people took away the one thing that kept you sane as a punishment?

I know, that's too hard for some of you to understand. My experience seems to be a unique one.

(Oh, by the way, I actually went through this TWICE, except the former one cost me the right to listen to the music that kept me sane and the latter didn't.)

[PHanomaly]

I'm sorry but I think you and others recently are doing a terrible disservice to this powerful phenomenon by not fully understanding it. You did lay it out well, but miss the depth of soldiers who are staring at innocent women and children, and your superior gives the order to "finish them".
Or the adolescent sexual assault victim who reports her uncle to police and she's not believed or he's released back into the home.

Those are the things that haunt you..

The first one cannot live with himself, in his uniform and awards, his self hated and anger grows, people stop and thank him for his service and as they shake his hand, he feels blood of those children and their screams as they died. A week later driving drunk and in a rage, a head on collision both died at the scene

and for the victims of sweaty men who covered their screams, are shamed and denied validation, support and justice, and instead blamed or mocked there is more than anger, their is RAGE AND OUTRAGE and shame never healed.

[taiwanmark]

You've successfully pathologised something that is a non-medical but important issue