Why Decompression Therapy is so important. by Fremdfirma

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Why Decompression Therapy is so important.

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Sunday, August 2, 2009 08:26
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Friday, July 31, 2009 10:10 AM

Not sure who knew this, but right up to the point where we completely cut off all support for the military over them having a unit stated on american soil with us citizens as their potentive mission...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008
113002217.html

We did "Decompression Therapy" - a form of readjustment assistance to help them unwind back into civilian life, a VERY difficult adjustment that the military very pointedly does not assist with cause it benefits them if you stay in service (I noticed even in Basic that at least some element of that "training" was intended to make the victim utterly dependent on the military) - so the guys that do get out, usually after being stop lossed repeatedly, and having their whole life/career/marriage trashed by the time that get out, or suffering crippling injuries through armor that saved their lives but not their limbs (something else I deal with) or being so mentally and emotionally wrecked they just can't cope anymore.

On top of that, despite all the fluffy promises they soon find out that for no longer "useful" cannon fodder, the military has all the regard for em that one has for a used kleenex, and behind all the polite mealy-mouthed doubletalk about honor and dignity and whatnot, the message "Fuck Off" is pretty clear.

So what we did is applied the same theraputic basics one does to a cult victim - which when you think about it, apply every bit as much to the cult of the military as any other, perhaps even more so.

Only - we can't do this anymore, we don't dare - not when the military has accepted us citizens as their next potential target and ANY help we offer is gonna bite us right on the ass, so we grind our teeth and watch em destroy themselves...

But I ran across a well done investigative editorial that shows quite clearly WHY that Decompression is so damned important, and I wanted to share it.

Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
http://www.gazette.com/articles/iframe-59065-eastridge-audio.html

I feel for these guys, more than you know - and it grinds me something awful that I don't dare offer them assistance no more...

Which leads into the OTHER thing I want you to think about.

Should it come to these guys in your face via natural disaster (Katrina), civil disorder, or what have you - THIS is the murderous mindset you're going to be dealing with, and they're gonna be lookin at YOU, you useless, dirty, civilian pukes, with the same eyes as they look at those Iraqi civvies now.

They AIN'T your friends, fellows and countrymen, they might have been once, and maybe someday might be again, but they are living in a nightmare inside their own heads right now where even if you DID somehow miraculously get your world across them they would simply resent you all the more for it.

Until you can break them out of that nightmare, all they see when they look at you...

Is a Target.

Never, EVER forget that.

-Frem

When they say that war changes a man, they're being euphemistic. War makes a man insane by civilian standards. When the man comes back, he may return to civilian norms again. After a while.
-David Drake

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Friday, July 31, 2009 4:18 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

Your technique of discontinuing treatment is self-defeating.

Every individual that you successfully decompress is likely to see you as a valued friend. Someone who cares. Someone they can trust.

And they in turn may become someone you can rely on, when things get ugly.

Each successful treatment turns a potential enemy into an ally. It is the ideal way to destroy foes.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Friday, July 31, 2009 10:37 PM

FREMDFIRMA

I realize that Anthony - but I am not directly in charge of operations no more, and I was outvoted.

Believe me I know what you're saying though, our communications/comm security guy was someone facing down a third round of stop-loss and we pulled a few strings, which saved his house, his marriage, and while it didn't stop his job from being outsourced on him, we did find him something comparable.

And of course, helping him unwind his mental gears besides... if I asked that boy to fall on his sword, he would.

But the official position is that the faster the military implodes on itself the better, and the hope is that they will eventually turn on the chain of command when the deterioration gets bad enough - something which my greater experience with that kinda psychology tells me is unlikely, cause they'll turn on themselves or each other first, but in a hard, cold, kinda way, that doesn't bother Justin a whole lot neither.

Despite being my handpicked successor, he does kinda see me as a meddling busybody who's grown old and soft, which ain't exactly untrue, mind you...

Of course, once the actual discharge papers are signed, and they're no longer IN the military, different story - but for active service folk, NOTHING.

I'm sure you can understand the reasoning behind that just as well as I do, I just happen to disagree, much for the exact same reasons you disagree with it.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Saturday, August 1, 2009 6:13 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

This reminds me of Roosevelt and Taft.

Too bad we all have to hand off the reigns eventually.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:26 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Alas yes.

That said, I AM a meddling old busybody, and completely capable doing my own meddling on my own time...

Here's a little bit of that meddling that Dave and the JFPO been helpin with.
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

-F

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