Annoyed former sailor on use of personality disorder diagnoses to deny benefits
May 28th, 2007
Promoted from comments on my March 23 post on the military’s use of personality disorder diagnoses to avoid paying benefits to traumatized Iraq vets:
The military uses personality disorder as a way to get rid of people they don’t want to deal with (for a number of reasons) by other means. They don’t do proper evaluations or make proper diagnoses and as such anyone with a PD diagnosis in the military should not believe it unless it is confirmed by a professional opinion, not the hacks they have in the military. I know of *many* people who have been discharged with PD and they are fully functioning people, not history of or signs of PD. It is a terrible thing that the military can do this is such immunity from being held accountable from their mistakes.
annoyed former sailor
Entry Filed under: Iraq, Personality, Psychology, US Troops, Veterans, War and Peace