Major Malik Nadal Hasan: Who Counsels The Psychiatrist?

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by Dafé,

Major Malik Nadal Hasan, MD, the psychiatrist in yesterdays shooting spree in Fort Hood Texas, and as my close friend also a psychiatrist says, he sees a lot of crazy people, both veterans and others, but it is very unlike a person of that responsibility, training and rank to do such a thing.

That brings a question to mind, who takes care of the mental health of the psychiatrist? I know we would expect psychiatrist and other mental health professionals to be able to diagnose themselves and should be listening to others, but in a few cases they may need help and really there is nowhere for them to turn to. Regardless of his motivation, what Major Hasan did was despicable, and as a mental health professional should have known better. Maybe after counseling those who returned from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, made him dread been deployed. We may not know the full reason for a while, but that shows that the caregiver may need care sometimes.

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