DOD Proved Einstein Right

DOD Proved Einstein Right
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
March 10, 2014

The definition of inflicted is "to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment, to impose (anything unwelcome)and to deal or deliver, as a blow." Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is, "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Until the Department of Defense understands this, suicides will continue to go up but they will no longer have to account for them simply because they will become veterans. They will be someone else's  problem.

Pharmaceutical companies say don't blame the drugs they make to treat PTSD and sleep issues. After all, it isn't their fault. Never mind that most medications come with warnings their drugs can make it all worse. Some medications for depression actually warn their drug can make it worse.

Mental Health experts say don't blame them. After all, when the Department of Veterans Affairs adopted the DOD program Battlemind in 2008, they said it was better than nothing. It turned out they were wrong. It was worse than nothing. The numbers of veterans committing suicide went up even after everything was being done to prevent them.

No one has explained how after all the funded research, programs, drugs, suicide prevention hotline, thousands of charities claiming to make a difference and outreach efforts across the country, have ended up producing more suicides than ever before.

Battlemind spawned the same type of effort in what the DOD pushed called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness. It didn't matter that Battlemind had already failed. Years later it didn't matter that CSF had failed. In the end, the DOD proved Einstein right.

Considering the outcome was predicted on Wounded Times in 2009 and last year in THE WARRIOR SAW, SUICIDES AFTER WAR, these deaths were inflicted because they should have been preventable.