Just a few words -

[kyburg]

I'm fully aware of what happened at Fort Hood yesterday.

And in the miasma of blame, racism and other asshattery...please keep this tucked away.

This was a healthcare professional who lost it completely after several years of warnings anyone could see, plain as plain.

And just thought it an acceptable risk.

Burnout. Know it, recognize it and give it credibility.

The biggest invisible unacknowledged disability out there.

...

And the worst part is that there was so much warning before it came to this.

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[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm quite certain that many soldiers about to be deployed are more than a little stressed at the prospect. Yet none of them have yet to shoot at their fellow soldiers.

The man was a fanatic. And at the end of the day, fanaticism doesn't care if the flavor is Muslim or Jewish or Southern Baptist. Fanatic is fanatic.

I've sat enough nights (or actually at that point it was days) up with dedoc afer a bad shift to know what burnout from job stress can do. And it don't get much uglier than ER job stress.

This? Not just burnout. Or second-hand PTSD (and I am dubious that second-hand PTSD would directly correlate to this behavior anyway). This was something more.

Either way, people knew. And he shoula been flagged, tagged and streeted.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I think I've had a few more words to look at - I'd have to, because this guy was no more a fanatic than anyone of color poked with privilege sticks most of their lives.

dedoc is lucky to have someone to decompress with - this guy had hired a lawyer to do what the military needed to have done.

Let him go. Seriously.

Story not over. And should is a dangerous word and I use it as rarely as I can.