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[theweaselking]

Latest US military cost-saving measure: Discharging thousands of US soldiers for "pre-existing" mental conditions, so that they don't have to pay for their treatment.

For bonus points, combine this with their continued insistence that recruiting standards are still high, *and* their implicit admission through this tactic that they've hired tens of thousands of people with personality disorders that make them unfit for service, armed them, and sent them into an occupation zone full of civilians with free-fire rules of engagement.

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[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

IM sure the new recruiting posters will reflect this "Hey, come do the job that Blackware does for 50x as much, and then get tossed on your ass when were through using you. Its patriotioc. What are you a terrorist????"

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Where do you think they're all going to go for jobs now?

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Theft becomes job training.

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

Politics?

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

And what's even sillier is how broad and vague some of the "criteria" are, I'm pretty sure a very large percentage of the population could be "diagnosed" (especially by an untrained professional after a 45 minutes interview) with one personality or another ... even though they are perfectly functional individuals.

Heck, to some degree, I wonder if some of the traits associated with some personality disorders might not actually be somewhat of an advantage in some war-related situations.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> especially by an untrained professional

*weeps*

I will note that anecdote is not the plural of data.

But this brought the guy who was told "Oh, you seem to be having panic attacks. Here, have these Xanax. Now take as many as you feel are necessary whenever you feel a panic attack coming on." just came to mind.

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

That is true yet my statistically insignificant experience with regards to PDs and how they are way too often diagnosed by GPs and other people who are not even using the right instruments to so so (hint: a 45 minute interview isn't sufficient), means that I wouldn't be surprised if this McDonald version of psychiatry were rather widespread, especially if the military are looking to reduce their healthcare costs in short order.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Shocking, saddening and utterly unsurprising. That in itself is pretty sad.

Good on Bond and Obama, and good on you for helping spread the news about how very, very little the current government values-- or how much it considers a liability to be eliminated-- the lives it wantonly jeopardises.