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You definitely don't have to be religious to be struggling with moral injury.

Dr. Shira Maguen explains that you don't have to be spiritual to experience moral injury.

Transcript

You actually don't have
to be religious to be struggling

with moral injury
or to get treatment.

I think for many people
that we see that are struggling

with moral injury,
they actually have disengaged

from spirituality
or disengaged from religion

because they feel like

they've done something
where they don't deserve that.

They don't deserve
to be part of a community

that they were once a part of
or they might feel like

they don't deserve to...

you know, to worship
God anymore.

And so I think people have

very different reactions
to what they did in war.

But but even,
you know, for many people, they

define themselves as spiritual
or really non-religious at all.

And they might

just have their own idea
of what those morals and values

mean to them.

So you definitely don't
have to be religious

to be struggling
with moral injury.

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