If Music Could Talk

eumaas wrote:http://sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=28Oct08

He went AWOL, then turned himself back in. He got a mental health referral for a discharge from a mental health specialist that worked for the Army, but not much in the way of assistance — though everyone he talked to, from the psychiatrist to the chaplain, seemed to want to give him pills. He didn’t want to go on pills, in part because his suicide attempts had been with pills, but he seemed to have to explain this over and over again to the same people until it was like talking to a brick wall.

Still216 wrote:

eumaas wrote:http://sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=28Oct08

God, that's depressing.

He went AWOL, then turned himself back in. He got a mental health referral for a discharge from a mental health specialist that worked for the Army, but not much in the way of assistance — though everyone he talked to, from the psychiatrist to the chaplain, seemed to want to give him pills. He didn’t want to go on pills, in part because his suicide attempts had been with pills, but he seemed to have to explain this over and over again to the same people until it was like talking to a brick wall.

This may be a stupid question, but if this is how soldiers are dealt with in the field, what exactly does the country plan to do for the tens of thousands of soldiers that served their country when/if they return home from this war? Besides letting perfectly informed rational individuals make perfectly informed rational decisions and pop pills, I mean.