{"id":29596,"date":"2012-04-20T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29596"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:59:01","slug":"phil-the-quack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29596","title":{"rendered":"Phil the Quack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kateser sends us a link to our buddy Cassy Chesser at YouServed Blog<\/a> who writes about a recent episode of the misnamed Dr Phil Show in which the main character in the obviously fantasy show tells us that veterans with PTSD are \u201cmonsters\u201d and \u201cdamaged goods\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of Dr. Phil\u2019s guests, Matt, is a former Marine who struggles with PTSD. He speaks about how, while deployed to Afghanistan, he repeatedly stabbed an enemy combatant in the face, even after he was dead, to get his anger out. He also claims he saw \u201clots\u201d of innocent people killed, including women and children. (His last name isn\u2019t given, so it\u2019s impossible to verify his claims of killing women and children while deployed to Afghanistan.)<\/p>\n

After Matt, Dr. Phil featured Mark and Heather. Mark is another veteran with PTSD who admits he has violent rages, says his life has been destroyed, and is afraid of what he will do to his family. Heather\u2019s husband, Duane, had PTSD. He beat her and set her on fire.<\/p>\n

The common thread between all of these stories: violence. Did Dr. Phil ever stop to point out that most veterans with PTSD don\u2019t end up setting their wives on fire or stabbing people repeatedly in the face? Of course not. Indeed, recent research has found that the link between PTSD and violent behavior is actually weak. Another dirty little secret Dr. Phil didn\u2019t feel was necessary to point out: civilians get PTSD, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t see what the problem is with Matt stabbing an enemy soldier in the face repeatedly. After the guy was dead, it probably didn’t even hurt anymore. But I think Matt is making it up anyway, and Phil The Quack wouldn’t mind much anyway, because it just fit the crap he wanted to scare his audience into believing. Of course, they wouldn’t give Matt’s last name – that might help us find out that he was a radar operator in some FOB who never left the wire and couldn’t have done what he says he did.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that a real doctor (not Phil) would be more interested in reducing the stigma attached to PTSD rather than creating a scandal where none exits. <\/p>\n

Cassy agrees;<\/p>\n

I\u2019m curious if Dr. Phil honestly thinks it\u2019s helpful to paint such a negative, violent picture of veterans struggling with PTSD. I would wager he doesn\u2019t care at all about how this affects our military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right now I have violent urges and I want to stab this bald turd repeatedly in the face and none of those urges are related to PTSD, it’s just me being me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kateser sends us a link to our buddy Cassy Chesser at YouServed Blog who writes about … Phil the Quack<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596","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=29596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}