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Originally posted by watchdog8110
I still say and will always conclude that cause of the stress needs to be dealt with . Not just piecing the person back together , the initial stress causing situation or stress causing person has to be fixed . War zone or work place , people snap when having their buttons pushed . The whole going postal some years back could of used this and probably had some say in the research as well as the Vets .
Originally posted by watchdog8110
Would hunters have a better coping mechanism than someone who has not ? Skinning a deer is different than skinning a bear , a lost friend of mine described skinning a bear is like skinning a person . Somehow it never really felt that way to me , but since having been raised around relatives that took the life of an animal for food on the farm . Plus having taken Taxidermy did not make it all that tragic or traumatizing . Gutting fish where you have to get your hands in there , it was what needed to be done to feed yourself .
Day in day out working on a kill floor of a slaughter house surely has some effects on those people .
Chopping the head off a chicken for food at the supper table is quite different than chopping the head off another human being that's in a whole different league of it's own . The personal connection one makes as part of a functioning team , I can understand why not making a friend would make it easier for some . WWII for example how soldiers relayed that not getting to close to someone helped them get through part of the pain when loosing a fellow soldier .
They deserve all the respect for what they had to endure .edit on 14-12-2011 by watchdog8110 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by isyeye
reply to post by Hefficide
As I've heard many times about the drug industry.....there is no money in a cure.
They would rather just patch you up, so they can give you more drugs tomorrow.