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Monday, April 18, 2011

Dr. Keith Ablow using hero's suicide for attention?

The story of Clay Hunt and his family came out April 8. It has been a very big story online with most sites picking up his story out of heartache. Ten days later, it seem Dr. Keith Ablow decided to write something but added nothing to the story of Clay Hunt or to his life. Had he wanted to just write a story on "survivor's guilt" then he should have left this Marine out of his story. Had Ablow known about the reports already done on Clay, he would have known how much pain he was carrying and why it was there.

Survivor's Guilt Haunting the Military
By Dr. Keith Ablow
Published April 18, 2011
FoxNews.com
On March 31, 2011, Clay Hunt, a 28-year-old Marine veteran who had served with great honor in Iraq and Afghanistan, receiving a Purple Heart, finally succumbed to the psychological fallout of that service, killing himself in his Sugar Land, Texas, apartment.
Hunt, a leading voice in helping other veterans get psychological help, had struggled publicly with the demons of war, especially the loss of four friends in his platoon.
“Two were lost in Iraq, and the other two were killed in Afghanistan,” his mother, Susan Selke, told the Houston Chronicle. “When that last one went down, it just undid him.”

Perhaps some of these questions? This is what this article was all about. Guess work, adding nothing new, not talking to the family or adding anything that could help but he had to drag Hunt into this from the beginning.

Perhaps some of these questions plagued Clay Hunt. Maybe they plagued many of the other veterans who have taken their lives after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe many are more hobbled by guilt than by terror, awakened in the night not by flashbacks to their own near-death experiences, but to the deaths of others; not by terror, but by guilt—by the very fact that they somehow do not deserve to be alive, even that others died because of something lacking in them.
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Survivor's Guilt Haunting the Military


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