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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave our government agencies given any though about the coming wave of PTSD
that our health care workers will be expeiencing when this clusterfuck finally dies down?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)to anything other than making sure His Lardship's ego is satisfied.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)with our military folks Im going with absolutely not.
murielm99
(30,742 posts)PTSD will be a problem for many other people as well. Our children will go through hell for years to come.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)They consistently deny mental health is a factor of concern in our country! Always has been this way. Obama fought hard to get mental health parity, but it's nowhere close. $50 copays for "specialist" treatment & very limited visits.
You can't stack mental health up on a shelf & sell it, so...
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And, obviously, the HEALTH of our society is not a concern for R's either because workers are disposable.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)I live with it and it sucks. It saddens me to think of all the people who will struggle with it in the future.
My heart goes out to them.
Hanging out at home all the time I get trapped in my head. It can get scary for sure.
safeinOhio
(32,687 posts)tend to rise up in times of stress. Best of luck my friends.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Maybe some mid level management in some department enough removed from the Trump appointed (or lack of) people might have something. But the Trump people probably haven't planned anything
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Will get ptsd, there will be plenty of others.
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)That's especially true in those COVID patients on ventilators for a week or two, not just a few hours.