"To experience moral injury is to be forced to act in ways or to witness actions that contradict your most deeply held convictions. You can sustain moral injury in one catastrophic event, like hurting an enemy combatant in an armed conflict you don't believe is just."
"Moral distress frequently presents as sadness or feeling like a bad person. The military helped us recognize moral injury, but the psychological mechanisms obviously aren't unique to war."
"Anytime people repeatedly participate in or witness actions that violate their moral framework and they feel unable to change it, you create the conditions for moral injury."
"Valdovinos suggests the wild political situation in the US is leaving more citizens in moral distress than ever before, but the key to feeling better also lies in other people."
Moral injury has been added to the DSM by the American Psychiatric Association, defining it as the distress from actions that conflict with personal convictions. It can result from single traumatic events or prolonged exposure to morally distressing situations. Michael Valdovinos highlights its impact on medics during the Covid-19 pandemic and emphasizes that moral injury is not limited to military contexts. The current political climate in the US is exacerbating moral distress among citizens, with recovery linked to social support and community.
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