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Rachel Williamson

  • John Philip Garrity served in Vietnam as a psych tech who spoke with soldiers about their combat experiences daily. He's since spoken out about his experiences with moral injury, a trauma disorder that results when people are forced to something that contradicts their moral code.
    Montana News
    How Vietnam vets help others understand ‘Moral Injury,’ a type of PTSD
    After veterans returned from the Vietnam War, which wound down 50 years ago, they struggled to adjust. That’s been true for combat vets before that war and since. For Vietnam vets, a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder wasn’t possible until the 1980s. More recently – around 2009 – psychological experts further refined PTSD with the term “moral injury."