A little cleanup in case some Karen gets annoyed at your language and your post is deleted. I plan on referring back to this comment if necessary. Thanks again.
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Back in the early to Mid 90’s at 2nd Amtracs they asked to have a Psychiatrist from the Naval Hospital come out to our Staff NCO and Officers call to give a talk of what to look for.
So he come out and delivered the following opener to his lecture,
“Suicide is the ultimate way to say to those who love you most, **** YOU, I don’t give a **** about you.”
Yeah I get the logic of what the shrink was attempting but a speech like that could be just an attempt to lock soldiers into a kind of moral straight jacket. It says...”we in the military high command absolve ourselves of any responsibility for any of the mental crap you have to deal with after fulfilling your duties as killing machines for sometimes errant foreign misadventures. You volunteered to be aholes for us and you’ll still be a-holes even if decide you can’t live with your week-kneed mamby pamby feelings...so take some of the hackneyed psych support we offer and get your self doped up but otherwise don’t blame us for your weakness...your moral choices are on you not us...you bit our apple now cover your guilt with our military fatigues!”
Suicide is indeed a selfish act as you have stated...but I think the shrink’s statement, if accurately portrayed by you, had the stench of a gaslighter’s torch!