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You can have moral injury with PTSD… or [moral injury] comes in lots of different shapes and sizes.

Dr. Shira Maguen explains that Veterans can have other diagnoses along with moral injury.

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You can
have moral injury with PTSD,

you can have moral injury
with depression.

You can also have moral injury
with substance abuse.

But it doesn't

you can also have moral
injury alone and not have any

one of those diagnoses.

So that is possible.

You may just be struggling
internally

but not have PTSD symptoms or
some of these other diagnoses.

So it comes in lots of different
shapes and sizes

and we try to work to understand

what is going on for the person
in its entirety rather than

just noticing the moral injury
or just noticing the PTSD.

We want to know

what are all of the things
that are bothering the person

and then we can come up
with the best treatment plan.

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