As one of my professional counseling colleagues, who works with active duty soldiers, once told me: “My job is to put a band-aid on them so they can get back to the field. The meds are a quick fix–we gotta treat ‘em and street ‘em.” No wonder it’s difficult to readapt to “normal life”… after a few deployments, the amygdalas in these guys’ brains are probably the size of basketballs.
As one of my professional counseling colleagues, who works with active duty soldiers, once told me: “My job is to put a band-aid on them so they can get back to the field. The meds are a quick fix–we gotta treat ‘em and street ‘em.” No wonder it’s difficult to readapt to “normal life”… after a few deployments, the amygdalas in these guys’ brains are probably the size of basketballs.