{"id":29237,"date":"2012-03-22T13:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29237"},"modified":"2012-03-22T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T22:26:56","slug":"abc-news-finds-a-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29237","title":{"rendered":"ABC News finds a nut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seriously, it must be the early Spring weather or something, but ABC News<\/a> isn’t going along with the PTSD meme now;<\/p>\n

[T]here’s no evidence to indicate that people afflicted with [PTSD] are more likely than anyone else to commit crimes and acts of mass violence. They are more inclined, instead, to turn their aggression on themselves and their families to devastating effect, research shows. <\/p>\n

The knee-jerk linking of Bales and PTSD also exposes troops to prejudice that might discourage them from seeking the treatment they so desperately need, advocates say. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They talk to actual veterans who have PTSD, instead of people who think they might have known a retarded person once. No, they didn’t interview an actual doctor who specializes in the treatment of PTSD, did they?<\/p>\n

Dr. Matthew Friedman, executive director of the National Center for PTSD in White River Junction, Vt., said it’s a mistake to automatically attribute crimes like Bales’ alleged killing spree to PTSD.<\/p>\n

“I’m not saying that PTSD couldn’t have been contributory, but the emphasis that PTSD and it alone can account for the event is just not borne out by the data,” Friedman said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holy shit, It’s hard to believe that all of these news organizations are tearing themselves away from the echo chambers like Twitter and actually talking to people who know something about the issue. Of course, they’re almost two weeks late, and we’ve been here all along trying to turn on the lights for these idiots cursing the darkness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously, it must be the early Spring weather or something, but ABC News isn’t going along … ABC News finds a nut<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}