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In reply to the discussion: is there a difference between a campus shooting and a hospital bombing? [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)And without knowing the dx's we don't know what likelihoods for resolution (or recurrence) might be. Anxiety and adjustment disorders for example may resolve once the irritating stimulus is removed.
Harper's experience with the military remains a mystery to the general public, his problem could be one of many possibilities, and some of those possibilities might resolve on leaving the military. Others probably would not some of them might get very much worse.
Personally, the military thing troubles me in the same way that the University of Colorado thing troubled me with John Holmes.
Obviously, I don't know what the military's reason was for mustering Harper out. But this nation needs to make sure that when institutions identify people with problems that those people just aren't dumped back on the rest of society without treatment.
Failure itself is often devastating to people. Reactions to it can go from grief to embittered vengefullness, and thereby dangerousness. When institutions identify people to be rejected there needs to be safety nets in place to help the person process their defeat, potential humiliation and assist them to overcome it in a positive manner if possible.
If we had such mental healthcare associated with worker's compensation we might be able to keep additional people from a range of reactions from "going postal" to long spirals into despair, hopelessness, and a need to find notoriety through infamy.