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3. Vets' suicide isn't just about untreated PTSD, psychological or physical injury. It's about moral injury.

Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay and colleagues coined the term moral injury to describe experiences where someone who holds legitimate authority has betrayed what is morally right in a high-stakes situation.[5] The concept of moral injury emphasizes the psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of trauma.[6]

According to the International Centre for Moral Injury, it "involves a profound sense of broken trust in ourselves, our leaders, governments and institutions to act in just and morally 'good' ways" and the experience of "sustained and enduring negative moral emotions - guilt, shame, contempt and anger - that results from the betrayal, violation or suppression of deeply held or shared moral values."[7]

The US Department of Veterans Affairs uses the term moral injury to describe the experiences of military veterans who have witnessed or perpetrated actions in combat that transgressed their deeply held moral beliefs and expectations.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury