{"id":65808,"date":"2016-05-16T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65808"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:02:21","slug":"stolen-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65808","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian<\/a> reports that military psychiatrists claim that nearly half of the claims for PTS in Britain are not related to military service – that the claims are more related to “Walter Mitty” personalities, instead;<\/p>\n

Ian Palmer, a former senior military psychiatrist who ran the government\u2019s medical assessment programme (MAP), a veteran\u2019s mental health service, found that in 42% of cases there was no definite link to military service and at least 10% appeared to be making up or significantly exaggerating their service history.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\u201cFabrications are intriguing because they range from outright fraud through to the fantastic and even delusional. I reckon about 10%, which may be an underestimate, of those coming for assessment may have either exaggerated or fabricated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Palmer said too many people, including health professionals, were quick to make a causal link between mental health and military service. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the problems affects the availability of services for real veterans with real problems and it drains the finite resources available. Not to mention that many criminals blame their bad behavior on non-existent military PTS-related issues. <\/p>\n

Edgar Jones, a professor of the history of medicine and psychiatry at King\u2019s College London, said the deception risked taking finite resources from deserving cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pressing issue of \u2018stolen trauma\u2019, that is the elaboration or falsification of traumatic experiences and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, is important because it has the potential to undermine the validity of genuine cases and dilute scarce resources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A number of our own Stolen Valor cases come to mind, many of whom are drawing a substantial monthly check for their obvious lies. The VA is either unwilling or unconcerned to fix these cases despite the fact that I’ve reported most of them to VAOIG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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