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<a class="fancybox" rel="5ada684569f50c7443c257fd9e537d85" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/040/508/for_gallery_v2/Dr._Jonathan_Shay.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/040/508/large_v3/Dr._Jonathan_Shay.jpg" alt="Dr. jonathan shay" /></a></div></div>Shay coined a new term — “moral injury”— to capture what a PTSD diagnosis leaves out. Some hope that it, too, will join the common lexicon.<br /><br />The hallmark symptoms of PTSD — nightmares and flashbacks, withdrawal from society and interests, hyper-arousal to anticipated dangers — are useful from an evolutionary perspective but destructive in civilian life, he said.<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/combat-trauma-expert-visiting-maine-details-moral-injuries-of-war-1.345994">http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/combat-trauma-expert-visiting-maine-details-moral-injuries-of-war-1.345994</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">Post-traumatic stress disorder has become so familiar among the many difficulties veterans face after returning from war that most know it by its acronym — PTSD. But the diagnosis reflects only part of the broader psychological harm soldiers bring home from the battlefield, according to Dr. Jonathan Shay.</p>
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<a class="fancybox" rel="fb7c47cc8ef794625f7b4832785cbd31" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/040/508/for_gallery_v2/Dr._Jonathan_Shay.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/040/508/large_v3/Dr._Jonathan_Shay.jpg" alt="Dr. jonathan shay" /></a></div></div>Shay coined a new term — “moral injury”— to capture what a PTSD diagnosis leaves out. Some hope that it, too, will join the common lexicon.<br /><br />The hallmark symptoms of PTSD — nightmares and flashbacks, withdrawal from society and interests, hyper-arousal to anticipated dangers — are useful from an evolutionary perspective but destructive in civilian life, he said.<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/combat-trauma-expert-visiting-maine-details-moral-injuries-of-war-1.345994">http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/combat-trauma-expert-visiting-maine-details-moral-injuries-of-war-1.345994</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">Post-traumatic stress disorder has become so familiar among the many difficulties veterans face after returning from war that most know it by its acronym — PTSD. But the diagnosis reflects only part of the broader psychological harm soldiers bring home from the battlefield, according to Dr. Jonathan Shay.</p>
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