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Mark Layson

Jul 1, 2026

10:22
Try and explain what it actually means.
10:25
Yeah.
10:25
Yeah.
10:26
When I start explaining moral injury, I think it's often best to start with that concept of post-traumatic stress that people has become a lot more mainline and understanding that you've been exposed to something that's had not necessarily a physical injury, but it's had more of a psychological, even spiritual existential wound that you carry as a result of those things.
10:46
Post-traumatic stress arose in the 1980s after a long chain of different ways in which the same phenomenon was described, whether it was battle fatigue or shell shock or soldier's heart or those different things.
10:58
There was a price to pay internally for the things we experienced externally.
11:02
But in the mid-1990s, psychiatrists working with veteran said, I'm not sure that post-traumatic stress really plumbs the full depth of what's going on for people.

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22:07
Yes.

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