Insanity: Mental Illness from War:

Soldiers are comeing home from the war in Iraq, not only because of combat stress, but because soldiers are not strong enough to control the mental and spirirtual effects of war. It is spirtiual in that it is allways the ego that leads humanity astray. The ego takes advantage of war and combat stress to undermine the will of a person. This is the nature of evil, to undermine, to control. Soldiers are trained to be aggresive in war, which leads to a bloodlust, either through anger, rage, or through shock of the horrors of war. the soldier needs to learn how to become detached from the horrors of war, this becomes a self defence mechism, of which the soldier can revert to. To have mercy, to care, to love are natural. But war shocks to the body by the horrors of war,which can seem chaotic and unrational. War cant' be rationalized because of its chaotic nature. Because soldiers get so little rest in combat zones the nightmare of war is made worse, because the stress takes a toll on the mind. What is insanity? It is like a neverending bad nightmare that plays out in real life. The mind becomes tortured through the endless experiance of violence. Some people react in different ways, some through shock, others through anger and rage. The military provides a box like structure around a soldier, its called disipline. When a soldier is released from the stritcures of disipline he is opend to the freedom life. The soldier is then free to express his anger, rage, and shock however they choose, the result is usualy through violence, and or through alcholism, which just adds to the nightmare of insanity. Insanity is symtom of depression, extreme insanity is depression. Thus insanity needs to be treated as depression. Its' my view that depression needs to be treated not with drugs, but with multivitamins,weight lifting, especial arm curls, and running. I recommend that troops returning home from war be kept on base for a minum of thirty days for rest, exercise, and counseling. In other words a program of "decompression". Only then should the soldier be allowed to return home to their family. War and the resulting affects of all its victims whether they be civlians or soldiers is a violent, chaotic force, whose victims tend to suffer for years after the experiance.