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...offers a critical evaluation of the human cost of war through the voices those who have paid it. Millions of Afghans have been killed since the late 1970's, and millions more have been displaced. Along with offering personal accounts of the rampant unemployment, imprisonment, sexual violence and mental trauma that have become widespread side effects of the conflicts for those who remain, the report also explores ways to alleviate conflict recommended by civilians themselves, including urging the government to establish the rule of law at all levels and asking the international community to assist with humanitarian reconstruction...
...landmark apology on Nov. 16, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said sorry to the thousands of British child migrants for the nation's participation in a program that resulted in psychological and physical trauma to so many. He also included in the apology another group of 500,000 who are referred to as "forgotten Australians" - Australian children who were institutionalized in the 20th century because they were either orphans, children of single mothers, or belonged to abusive parents. Like the migrant children, many were also subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse under state care. (See the 25 crimes...
...drunk, but it makes you, UHS, act crazy. You fixate on the substance rather than on the substantive problems. We hear anecdotes all the time of friends showing up drunk and with broken ankles, yet only treated—with a sneer—for the alcohol. The psychological trauma of having to spend any time in a hospital (where no hospitality is to be found) is hard enough as is without having those who are supposed to “help” only helping increase our sense of shame...
...it’s ten dollars, but so is a bottle of nail polish remover. Save yourself the freshman year trauma of pounding shots of acetone...
...Read "Hasan's Therapy: Could 'Secondary Trauma' Have Driven Him to Shooting...