TIME Magazine: "Secondary Trauma" May Have Driven Hasan to Slaughter 13 Soldiers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 8, 2009, 10:51 PM
You’ve got to be kidding.
The state-run media thinks we’re all stupid.
TIME, the former news magazine, reported today that “secondary trauma” may have driven Nidal Hasan to massacre 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood.
Yahoo republished the report:
As an army psychiatrist treating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Major Nidal Malik Hasan had a front row seat on the brutal toll of war. It is too early to know exactly what may have triggered his murderous shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood – Hasan is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 32 others before he was wounded by a police officer – but it is not uncommon for therapists treating soldiers with Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.) to be swept up in a patient’s displays of war-related paranoia, helplessness and fury. (See pictures of suicide in the recruiters ranks.)
In medical parlance it is known as “secondary trauma”, and it can afflict the families of soldiers suffering from P.T.S.D. along with the health workers who are trying to cure them. Dr. Antonette Zeiss, Deputy Chief of Mental Health Services for Veteran Affairs, while not wishing to talk about the specific case of the Fort Hood slayings, explained to TIME that: “Anyone who works with P.T.S.D. clients and hears their stories will be profoundly affected.”
It’s entirely possible that other factors may have acted as a trigger for Hasan’s alleged killing spree.
Hat Tip Margaret
Unbelievable.
I’m betting it had more to do with the fact that he attended the same radical mosque as the 9-11 killers and was screaming “Allahu Akbar” when he shot the soldiers dead.
Related TIME article: Stresses at Fort Hood Were Likely Intense for Hasan
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Freddy commented:
Are the editors of Time still wondering why they are going out of business?
Valerie commented:
I tell you, it’s PTSD – PRE-traumatic stress disorder.
Those sensibilities of the irhabists are so exquisite, ya know!
JR commented:
Why are they doing this? Why are they considering radical Muslim terrorists a group that needs special protection? Do they really believe this crapola?
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
A re-post from another related thread
Oh really? Get these jihadists off our streets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHYiWCm8Gs&feature=player_embedded#
Thomas Jackson commented:
Don’t forget we have hate crime laws now. Anyone questioning Islam will be fully prosecuted under the full extent of Obamaism.
Nahanni commented:
From Dr Sanity…
HYPOTHETICAL ATROCITIES AND HYPOTHETICAL VICTIMS: Psychological Displacement and the Fierce Urge to Be Politically Correct.
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2009/11/hypothetical-atrocities-and.html
However, I would disagree in that this is not formal mental illness; though it is insanity. It is more precisely called an severe neurosis, a term that has gone out of favor in contemporary psychiatry, but which very adequately describes the kind of thinking that runs rampant in these days of political correctness–a form of deranged thinking designed to protect the individual from the awareness of imminent danger (think of the paralysis of deer in headlights). Specifically, it is a type of neurotic defense mechanism that serves to deny reality; and I have talked about it many times on this blog.
It is called psychological displacement, and it is an attempt to avoid an unpleasant and frightening truth by substituting something (or someone) that is less threatening. Bush Derangement Syndrome a form of psychological displacement; the kind of thinking that maintains that Christianity and Judaism are just as violent as Islam is a form of displacement; the irrational fear that Christians intend to foist a theocracy on the U.S. is also a form of psychological displacement.
Rob commented:
If this had any validity to it, then we would all be suffering from tertiary trauma, for having to listen to all of Hasan’s imaginary problems.
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
It’s an unholy alliance between Islam and Communism. And it isn’t coming to our shores. It’s here. In charge. Fired up and ready to go.
Buffalobob commented:
Time magazine has long ago relinquished itself to the out house.
jonyjoe101 commented:
“secondary trauma” ? that jihadist never served overseas, he was a coward, trying very hard not to go.
The only trauma that paper pusher quack got was at most a “paper cut”.
No one wants to call him a terrorist. He is a terrorist.
reliapundit commented:
next thing they’ll claim: mcchystal’s troop request put too much pressure on him…
and he cracked.
oh. sorry: that’s the other muslim: obama!
Sandy commented:
The Obama Media will say anything which makes the American people guilty of Hasan’s actions. First, the guy harbored Anti-American feelings which he has expressed in numerous e-mails and second, being a Psychiatrist wouldn’t Hasan be in the best position to know that he was capable of a Terrorist Act like this? This was a premeditated act so he had time to deliberate the consequences of his actions–and he decided to kill 13 people and injure 38 others. Therefore, this is an act of terrorism–whether Obama and the media like the term or not.
Sanmon commented:
How come all the front line chaplins and stress management folks are not blowing fellow soldiers away. So far it is just a Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist coward that never left state side who has not even done one tour of duty let alone 4 tours like some chaplins have done.
Sandy commented:
I think I must be suffering Secondary Trauma too. The economy is in free fall but they tell me I love Obama. If the Senate passes this Healthcare Bill the Death Panels will be coming for me and if I didn’t have Talk Radio or Fox News the load of crap that Time is peddling would be all there was. Unlike Hasan, the only damage I wish to do is to vote straight Republican next year and pray for REPEAL.
Sandy commented:
sanmon — The US Govt paid for Hasan’s education and this is how he pays us back.
Dr. Rona Michelson commented:
Believe it or not, there are ethical standards for mental health professionals and when one is having feelings that are triggered by a client’s issues, one is required to seek his/her own therapy. In cases where it becomes more than a passing feeling, one is required to withdraw from the case. Had this murderer been well supervised, he would not have been “suffering” from trauma. It was his responsibility to get help and the responsibility of his supervisor to make sure he did. However, looking at his history, a better theory is that he was radicalized long before and that this was the result of the hate he had been exposed to.
myna commented:
The old media is writing now the narrative for the Ft. Hood massacre. Do you feel safe now?
David/California commented:
I had no idea that mental pathologies were communicable! This is EXTREMELY frightening!!! If ‘mental therapy professionals’ are susceptible to hosting contagious psychoses ALL of us are in mortal danger!
We must be protected.
Since inoculations would be contraindicated, and no symptoms of derangement would be apparent to the lay observer, I see only one solution – the quarantine of the infected group. We must do it for the CHILDREN!
Yes, as distasteful as it may be, we MUST round-up all ‘mental health professionals’ and confine them behind barbwire! Only immediate, draconian measures by our benevolent government can possibly stem this plague of mental disease. (Of course, all individuals who have consulted a ‘mental professional’ recently must be temporarily confined for their own protection until declared free of infection.)
I’m quite certain our Left-wing media, now that it’s diagnosed this dangerous and invisible health threat to all citizens, will demand rigorous, harsh government action to immediately incarcerate all psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, etc. as high-risk disease vectors.
Once safely confined, of course, they will have access to the very finest of government-provided Pelosi/Obama health care…
wanumba commented:
He hung around Ft. Hood long enough to know when a big group of soldiers would be packed into a tight space unarmed. Since he was supposed to be deployed, he needed to act before he got sent over to Iraq, where he might not have the same opportunity for sitting ducks (soldiers being armed).
If he had been really a brave Wahhabist and trusted his god, then he would have showed up like Rambo and challenged everyone to a man-a-mano. No, he dry-gulched everyone, expecting a suicide-murder by cop, ’cause he was too chicken to do himself in.
The media are worse than worthless, they are enablers. Notice how the defense is he was upset about the “atrocities against Iraqis?” And from where did he get THAT idea? Scott -I-enlisted-for-cred-so-I-could-throw-the-infallabilty-card-when-I-made-up-nutso-soldier-stories-for-NR-Beauchamps? “Pvt” Jesse McBeth? NYT?
Quite the dynamic duo, the MSM and the Islamofascists.
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