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This all must be very triggering for you, Tom. How are you doing?

I know that when something hits the news that reminds me of the trauma that occurred in my own life, I can go a little snakey.

I just wanted to remind you of a couple things to help you get through this difficult time:

Things ARE getting better. What happened to you was partially allowed because of the state of the laws and culture. We are getting better (I admit it should and could come a little faster). I know this recent tragedy might make it feel like things are getting worse and that is completely understandable given your history.

Please take extra care and know that you survived. Surviving what you've been through is no easy feat. I'm glad you made it.

I am posted at fort hood.... Was in the welcome lane waiting to get on post when the lockdown happened... I heard what I think was the shots as the clear creek gate is less than a click from the SRP site where I processed in and out for deployment to Afghanistan, and this happened...

Since I have returned, on post. That post Ft. Hood has been the only place in the world where I felt safe. I felt like I was inside the only barrier that I couldn't be touched... This incident has soured that... I drive by that site 2-3 times everyday... I work just down the street... I will never look at my safe place the same again...

Say what you will. Army psychiatrists, and psychologists have saved my life. They have pulled me back from the brink, and have done it at all hours of the night and day... without regard for anything but my well being the army saved me from me... Afghanistan broke me... the army has tried their damnedest to put me back together...

Just as in the real world outside of the army... people snap... bad shit happens. it does... The day before and the day after their were shootings in Maine and Georgia...

I can't say why I need to, but I feel like I must be in defense of the army here. Not the war. Not this officer. But the army. Comprised of individual soldiers who I have seen give their lives multiple times to save each other... and the mental health professionals who everyday try to right us when we come home from hell.

Say what you will, but this remains one of the worst examples of loss of life at the hands of any individual....... a psychiatrist, and it should not be minimized.
And I'm tiring of triggers from the mental health field, let alone being labeled by them.
This is not about the US or it's military or anything else.............. it's about psychopathic mental health providers.

Wonder why no one else is able to see what I write here ?

Tom S. in Tn.

Tom,

Your issue is with the mental health field... as a whole... which I can on some level understand, and empathize with. Trauma at the hand of any group is tough to overcome. But condemning the field as a whole based on the act of a few individuals is short sided.

The same can be said of workers in the postal field. A few of them have gone over the edge, and taken a mass of lives... that doesn't mean all mail workers are vile. Any field has bad nuts.

I've lost friends blown to bits by a Muslim suicide bomber. Bad scene. Bad individual. But that does not in my mind condemn all Muslims... There are a few bad nuts...

Like I said, all fields, all walks of life have people that go off the deep and commit vile acts... that is unfortunately the world we live in.

Not all psychiatric providers are bad.... Most aren't. Most work very hard to bring us back from the edge when our mind fractures... they are healers. Most of them. Condemning the field is short sided.

Without the care of dedicated mental health professionals on that very post, I would no longer inhabit this earth... that's just a fact. It is.. I was far gone, and they pulled me back.

This tragedy will cement itself in the minds of many, including me, and always haunt me, trigger me, and set me off ease... It will.

Changes will occur from this... positive change... In the month of January, 18 of my brother's in arms took their own lives... I was almost one of those numbers... Due to the overwhelming, dedicated work by the army, and their providers these numbers have quelled, and have seen significant improvement... This Major was one bad... in a field that I have personally interacted with that are filled with good, loving people that are trying to save us, the soldiers after the horror that is war.

I do sympathize with you Tom. I do. And am not trying to minimize your feelings in any way... but it does seem that you are flaming against a tragedy that you don't own... and I do... and with your flame, you are burning down the one bridge that those of us directly affected by this have to cope. Our mental health providers who have been there, and will continue to be there even in the wake of this horror...

You seem to be just lashing out of anger, and rage. And I get that. I do. But direct it toward remembering that you have survived, and be a point of hope, and support for those of us that are here.

'The field' needs OVERSIGHT, plain and simple.
'The field' is as attractive to lunatics as honey to bees.
'The field' is comprised of a huge unnumbered group of people right off the street with no formal training and are completely unaccounted for because they do not posses any form of credentialing in the form of professional license or etc. Rape crisis counselors are a prime example of this, and they report to absolutely no one.

Be advised and tell all your psych friends in 'the field' that I'll not stop.
It's only sad I have to wait for such a catastrophic loss of innocent life to have a platform where I can for once be taken seriously from.

This is a decent forum, and it reaches a fair amount of vulnerable people who can and potentially are affected by such malfeasance, and my intent is to make as many aware of the dangers of 'the field' as I possibly can.

You can better bet I'm lashing out and if I can save a single soul from being molested and social worker raped like I was, then you can darn well believe I will.
Again, it's sad as hell I can not be allowed to be heard and allowed serious consideration until one of 'the field' has committed some kind of mass atrocity.
Hope 'the field' sleeps well, but this is a small forum compared to others I can express my cause on. You people have been able to keep me debased and at bay until this point when the true nature of one of your own becomes evident. Go to my post below and follow the link where this guy claimed expertise in PTSD.

Oversight and accountability of every individual claiming to be a practitioner, licensed or not, must begin and soon. Agree and quit trying to muddy the issue with personal stories, I'm not. There is plenty of bandwidth for that on all the forums.

Remember, the same number of people 'the field' is allowed to practice on are the same number of people who 'the field' can devastate for the rest of their lives, and you psychs need to be not only aware of that fact, but be held accountable for it as well.

Keep up the good work with our military, but keep in mind you psychs be watched more closely, for a while anyway. Tom S. in Tn.

We all have to watch our backs everywhere. There are bad people out there, in every profession. There are also good ones. I've been through a few not so great psych's, and I have an awesome one now. It's all in the individual's experience. You had a bad one, and you deserve to be angry, but not all psych's are bad.

I had a horrible biological mother, but not all mothers are bad.

Yeah I think Codee said it well. Mental health professionals are just human too. They are failable just like everyone else. There are complete whack jobs, but there are also decent ones. And yes, maybe they need to be watched more carefully. But it can't be expected that every single one will be flawless.

Tom, You have a right to be angry and to express it. Just because some of us do not agree with your opinon does not mean you should not be allowed to express it. This has probably triggered you greatly and you should not have to hold it in and bury your feelings. This site is a place where we should feel safe to say what we feel. All of us have been silenced way too long.

Tom,

I am not angry, I am saddened by this. But your notion that everyone in the field is bad because one is bad, is an opportunity for you. Very recently I read that "Pain is God's Megaphone" So why does this situation provoke so much anger at a group of people. Is there someone in that group that you can name that has hurt you? A specific person that you can name?

I am not actually harping on you specifically, what I am trying to get at is the term "Prejudice" in my humble opinion your position that all psychaitraists are bad, is prejudice. Prejudice is ignorance. Not a disrespectful word, it means "A lack of knowledge" not what most people hear "stupid" Prejudice is not knowing. And fearing that unknow.

Now, racism is the next level. Racism is acting on that ignorance agressively toward the people who you do not undrestand because they are different, and inferior... in your mind.

So, it is my opinion that the solution to ignorance is to acquire knowledge about the group you are prejudice against. This requires a relationship with a real person, with red blood, who loves his wife, and is angry about the killings that happened at fort hood.... that is a psychiatrist. Find this person, engage in a relationship with him, and teach yourself that your prejudice about all psychaitrists is inaccurate.

This dude snapped. And someone dropped the ball because noone noticed before he snapped, but the Media knew within hours after the fact that it was obviously coming.

So your right, and it will happen, a new reality will be set up to take this situaiton into account. But even that does not make all psychiatrists bad. Mine is saving my life.

OK, brief history if anyone cares to come back and read this.
I was publicly raped when I was 17 because a burned out hippie social worker thought the best way for me to overcome social phobia and fear of women was for me to have sex with her. When I refused her, she had my illegitimate Veterans Administration social worker father have me perform in a massage parlor on a prostitute.

And yes, I'm skeptical any time one of them is acting like a psychologist instead of doing social work.

12 years ago, I was sent to Nashville Tennessee's ONLY claiming specialty in rape crisis and sexual abuse.
The misandry unlicensed professionals there could not cope with the fact that females rape males and because I expected to be treated with bias and prejudice........ one of the psuedo professionals went beserk on me in a little office behind closed door.

Oh I suppose you could say my experiences have been extradoinary. But then alond comes another who just killed over a dozen and critically wounded 31 more.

This damned industry is sapping far to much from the public welfare all without any oversight what so ever.
This will continue to make good letters to the editor and call in radio talk for a long time to come.

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Wonder if they'll update this psych's internet record? Take the link to the info above from my other [post no one is responding to then come back and tell us, in terms me or any other prejudiced monkey could comprehend: Just how do you find one of these you could trust your life with ? ? ?

the defense rests.............. Tom S. in Tn.