Reply #35: Normal Guilt

[SoDesuKa]

You still haven't acknowledged that people whose guilty feelings arise from personal wrongdoing are different from people whose guilty feelings arise from being traumatized in some innocent way. If you were to make that acknowledgement, I would consider it a breakthrough. However, as things stand, neither the APA nor the Veteran's Administration addresses the struggle of soldiers like Jeff Lucey, who believed he was a murderer. The appropriateness of such feelings certainly affects the disposition of the case, don't you think?

The VA totally failed Jeff Lucey. VA psychologists made an inappropriate diagnosis of PTSD, when in fact Lucey was suffering from guilt arising from his own behavior. There are many more soldiers like Jeff Lucey who will be returning from Iraq. We should get a handle on how to deal with this, rather than defend craven doctors.