Comments on: Mental Health Concerns at the Fore of the Ft. Hood Shooting Incident http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/fort-hood-shooting-mental-health-concerns/ Exploring Healthy Psychotherapy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sharon Johnson http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/fort-hood-shooting-mental-health-concerns/#comment-25249 Sharon Johnson Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:30:10 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5659#comment-25249 This tragic event highlights the impact of primary and secondary trauma on caregivers and the need for preventive interventions for those working in the help professions. Dr Pat Cane's multicultural popular educational workshop model "Capacitar" is one such intervention, integrating mind/body/spirit in self-care. Her vision is healing ourselves before we heal others. We in Soutn Africa (and many other countries in the rest of the continent) are using her practices and approach to great effect in the battle against HIV/Aids and compassion fatigue. Dr Cane is working in 35 countries around the world, including the USA, where she is based in California. Despite the complexities of this tragedy, the military would do well to adopt her approach. This tragic event highlights the impact of primary and secondary trauma on caregivers and the need for preventive interventions for those working in the help professions. Dr Pat Cane’s multicultural popular educational workshop model “Capacitar” is one such intervention, integrating mind/body/spirit in self-care. Her vision is healing ourselves before we heal others. We in Soutn Africa (and many other countries in the rest of the continent) are using her practices and approach to great effect in the battle against HIV/Aids and compassion fatigue. Dr Cane is working in 35 countries around the world, including the USA, where she is based in California. Despite the complexities of this tragedy, the military would do well to adopt her approach.

]]> By: John Lee LMHC http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/fort-hood-shooting-mental-health-concerns/#comment-24983 John Lee LMHC Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:09:19 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5659#comment-24983 This is so tragic! Words can not describe the impact of this event on the families and the people who knew them. And thanks to the constant media coverage, others could be effected by this traumatic senseless act as well. I do related with the message that those of us in the field need to get help as needed. I've been part of a Psychiatric team in an inpatient/outpatient setting for the last 13 years. I have seen staff suicides! Working in the field can be very emotionally draining and we too need a place to go! The message is a real wake up call for me! I need to continue to take care of my self so I can continue to help others. When I become too angry, lonely, tired and emotionally drained, I need to take care of me! I hope other's in the field get this message as well! We do break down! Some more extreme than others! We again have to take care of ourselves! Especially, if we have trauma in our past! This is so tragic! Words can not describe the impact of this event on the families and the people who knew them. And thanks to the constant media coverage, others could be effected by this traumatic senseless act as well.

I do related with the message that those of us in the field need to get help as needed. I’ve been part of a Psychiatric team in an inpatient/outpatient setting for the last 13 years. I have seen staff suicides! Working in the field can be very emotionally draining and we too need a place to go!

The message is a real wake up call for me! I need to continue to take care of my self so I can continue to help others. When I become too angry, lonely, tired and emotionally drained, I need to take care of me!

I hope other’s in the field get this message as well! We do break down! Some more extreme than others! We again have to take care of ourselves! Especially, if we have trauma in our past!

]]> By: BOB DAVIDSON http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/fort-hood-shooting-mental-health-concerns/#comment-24867 BOB DAVIDSON Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:46:26 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5659#comment-24867 although this news is as shocking to me as any other american, i just wonder what this is going to do to people's minds... first of all, it will create a prejudice towards even legal migrants, and also in the armed forces, such people are bound to suffer a prejudice... I read that the person who did the act himself was subjected to such prejudice and ridicule in the past, during his service to the armed forces. But this has to change...people need to think in a matured manner...that generalization is not good at all and gives no idea about a person. although this news is as shocking to me as any other american, i just wonder what this is going to do to people’s minds… first of all, it will create a prejudice towards even legal migrants, and also in the armed forces, such people are bound to suffer a prejudice… I read that the person who did the act himself was subjected to such prejudice and ridicule in the past, during his service to the armed forces.

But this has to change…people need to think in a matured manner…that generalization is not good at all and gives no idea about a person.

]]> By: Whitney http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/fort-hood-shooting-mental-health-concerns/#comment-24858 Whitney Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:17:09 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5659#comment-24858 The incident was shocking indeed, but what was more shocking is that the person in question was a psychiatrist himself! Most people, as you have mentioned, would agree that a person dealing with and helping others with mental illnesses would know better, but as the incident has proved, all of us are human and are prone to committing mistakes... I think the government should, instead of putting the person in question through the usual course of investigation, first try to find out why all this has happened, and do a thorough investigation regarding the cause, and with the results, work in a way so as to prevent any such future incidents. It need not be a person of a particular religion or immigrant parents doing it the next time, it could be anyone under stress or any similar problem as faced by this person. The incident was shocking indeed, but what was more shocking is that the person in question was a psychiatrist himself!

Most people, as you have mentioned, would agree that a person dealing with and helping others with mental illnesses would know better, but as the incident has proved, all of us are human and are prone to committing mistakes…

I think the government should, instead of putting the person in question through the usual course of investigation, first try to find out why all this has happened, and do a thorough investigation regarding the cause, and with the results, work in a way so as to prevent any such future incidents. It need not be a person of a particular religion or immigrant parents doing it the next time, it could be anyone under stress or any similar problem as faced by this person.

]]> By: ashley http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/fort-hood-shooting-mental-health-concerns/#comment-24856 ashley Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:05:32 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5659#comment-24856 i saw this report on tv and it sent chills down my spine!imagine the plight of the victims to see their own colleague pulling the trigger on them!that would be shocking enough to put most people in a condition wherein they cannot react as quickly and swiftly as they would if the attacker was an outsider...it is a sad day indeed for the nation to have lost army personnel to the bullets of another... i saw this report on tv and it sent chills down my spine!imagine the plight of the victims to see their own colleague pulling the trigger on them!that would be shocking enough to put most people in a condition wherein they cannot react as quickly and swiftly as they would if the attacker was an outsider…it is a sad day indeed for the nation to have lost army personnel to the bullets of another…

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