Read about “The Burden of Leadership.” lonelyroadhome/1/post/2013/09/the-burden-of-leadership.html The exhausting pace of work, the constant state of danger, specific combat incidents, or encounters of the horrible aftermath of combat are all possible sources for the moral injury that Dr. Shay wrote about. And those moral injuries can develop into PTSD. Another source of the moral injury, as I found in my own experience, was leadership responsibility. I discussed this topic with another combat veteran, a close friend of mine, when I was working as a Army civilian in Alexandria, Virginia, after I retired from the Army. I thought I was alone in feeling this particular pain, but it was comforting to hear that someone else struggled with it. The pain I’m speaking of is the great guilt that a leader feels in combat when people that he or she is responsible for, or in command of, are wounded or dying. Ironically, the people who were dying and whose deaths were so deeply affecting me were not directly under my responsibility. All of the people that I was directly responsible for came home at least physically sound, thanks be to God who…… Read the rest of the posting on my daily blog at the link below:
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