Mental Health
Veteran charged for strangling his roommate to death at a VA medical center
Christopher Schweikart murdered another veteran at the acute mental health unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. This medical center is located at Riviera Beach, Florida. Schweikart admitted, to a nurse, to killing the other veteran including how he did it. He also informed the nurse that he wanted to die. Federal VA agents arrived […]
Sorry media, the US military is not full of violent extremists
The Pentagon commissioned a report in 2021 aimed at addressing violent extremism within the ranks. The results have been released but the media did not give it as much attention as it could have provided. The report concluded that the ranks are not jam-packed with violent extremists, that there was no “disproportionate number of extremists” […]
Psychedelics to treat veterans with PTSD? Research underway…
Juliana Mercer is a Marine Corps veteran who served in both Iraq and in Afghanistan. To help address what she was going through after her return, Mercer traveled to a Central American country. A non-profit pointed the way leading Mercer to travel to where she could leverage magic mushrooms. today, she advocates for the use […]
Brain Cartography
This is one in a series of short discussions of the myriad ways our society in general, and the mental health field in particular, fail to understand the veteran culture. That there is a such a thing as a “Veteran Culture” as something unique is itself a hotly contested when not summarily dismissed concept. One […]
Personality and Psychology Testing for Dummies
This is one in a series of short discussions of the myriad ways our society in general, and the mental health field in particular, fail to understand the veteran culture. That there is a such a thing as a “Veteran Culture” as something unique is itself a hotly contested when not summarily dismissed concept. Are […]
Normalizing Talking About Suicide
This is one in a series of short discussions of the myriad ways our society in general, and the mental health field in particular, fail to understand the veteran culture. That there is a such a thing as a “Veteran Culture” as something unique is itself a hotly contested when not summarily dismissed concept. Writing […]
It’s All In Your Head
This is one in a series of short discussions of the myriad ways our society in general, and the mental health field in particular, fail to understand the veteran culture. That there is a such a thing as a “Veteran Culture” as something unique is itself a hotly contested when not summarily dismissed concept. One […]
Trans Health Department Admiral, “Wrong Puberty”
DHHS Admiral Rachel Levine and Friend ABC’s late night news program “Nightline” is pandering to the woke with their series entitled “Identity Denied: Trans in America.” In a recent installment the guest was Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary Admiral Rachel Lavine, formerly Pennsylvania’s Health Secretary during the Covid debacle and also formerly […]
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