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Posted on 04/23/2026 11:42:29 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
When President Trump signed his executive order on psychedelic medicines, the reaction was split, along the usual lines. What almost no one seems to realize is the experiment is no longer theoretical. It has been running, quietly and carefully, in Australia for more than two years and the results are reshaping how that country cares for the men and women it sent to war.
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First of all, call it ‘Shell Shock’ instead of PTSD.
Why don’t we just label it “want of moral fibre” like the hardcore Brits did to victims in WWI. PTSD is a much better descriptor given that a lot of the suffering according to more recent research comes from the breach of the social contract between suffering vets, who had horrible things happen in combat and the military and civilian societies around them.
And those MOST likely to be and/or become suicidally depressed or mass shooters by such military service are whining that Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth and POTUS Trump are booting them OUT of military service.
TRANS can stay home and play with dollies.
Yeah, Ecstasy, also known as Molly, Adam, and XTC, among other names, is a synthetic drug whose main ingredient is a chemical called 3,4-MethyleneDioxy-MethAmphetamine, or MDMA.
Yeah, Ecstasy, also known as Molly, Adam, and XTC, among other names, is a synthetic drug whose main ingredient is a chemical called 3,4-MethyleneDioxy-MethAmphetamine, or MDMA.
Just to make it clear, the band XTC is NOT named after the drug.
Linky no worky.
What a coincidence! That’s what my link said!
Why?
Whether called PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome, shell shock (WW II), soldier's heart (WW I), neurasthenia (19th and early 20th century), and DaCosta syndrome (US Civil War) all are likely (in my opinion) due to magnesium deficiency and persistent injury to the central nervous system, from concussion, neurotoxicity, or pathogens.
The traditional military attitude toward PTSD and its kin reflects the grim realities of combat. Since most men function well enough to fight, there is no sound or fair reason on which to excuse from combat those who have the shakes without a clear and verifiable physical wound, injury, or other impediment.
Doctors do little better when they are unable to diagnose and explain an illness. Whether PTSD or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in clinical practice, the risk of malingering tends to make doctors reluctant to make a diagnosis for which they have no clear objective test.
Once upon a time, multiple sclerosis was in that category. Many doctors regarded its early stages as malingering. Only after years of research was the disease understood well enough to be capable of diagnosis. Its cause remains unknown, although one or more pathogens seem certain to be involved.
In application, the social contract is a tricky thing. The interests of the healthy who work, sacrifice, and suffer cannot be disregarded. After all, even if PTSD and similar ailments are real, they are hard to distinguish from well-informed malingering. This creates a risk of inviting and facilitating fraud for the sake of disability benefits. In the end, medicine is never just about the patient.
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