15-01-2023, 04:57 PM
Danielle Sheridan
Sun, 15 January 2023 at 5:00 am SGT
Hundreds of female members of the Armed Forces who accused their colleagues of rape were “misdiagnosed” with having a personality disorder
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The victims claimed that after they sought help for sexual assault from the military’s departments of community mental health (DCMH), they were “written off” with emotionally unstable personality disorder and subsequently medically discharged.
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victims were being “overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed” so that the military can “get rid of the problem”.
The revelations came a month after The Telegraph revealed that the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was urged to tackle a “toxic culture” of sexual assault after hundreds of servicewomen claimed to have reported abuse at the centre during their training.
Since then, a further 16 women have come forward to say that they were sexually abused while serving at Sandhurst.
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“It is a worrying pattern,” she said. “A woman is raped so she goes to DCMH. She’s understandably all over the place. She might be suicidal. But instead of the medical practitioner seeing it as post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD], they diagnose her with a personality disorder.
“You can’t serve in the military with this diagnosis, which enables the military to get rid of the problem.”
Much better to read the full report for the details at: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/female-soldie...00977.html
Sun, 15 January 2023 at 5:00 am SGT
Hundreds of female members of the Armed Forces who accused their colleagues of rape were “misdiagnosed” with having a personality disorder
......
The victims claimed that after they sought help for sexual assault from the military’s departments of community mental health (DCMH), they were “written off” with emotionally unstable personality disorder and subsequently medically discharged.
......
victims were being “overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed” so that the military can “get rid of the problem”.
The revelations came a month after The Telegraph revealed that the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was urged to tackle a “toxic culture” of sexual assault after hundreds of servicewomen claimed to have reported abuse at the centre during their training.
Since then, a further 16 women have come forward to say that they were sexually abused while serving at Sandhurst.
......
“It is a worrying pattern,” she said. “A woman is raped so she goes to DCMH. She’s understandably all over the place. She might be suicidal. But instead of the medical practitioner seeing it as post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD], they diagnose her with a personality disorder.
“You can’t serve in the military with this diagnosis, which enables the military to get rid of the problem.”
Much better to read the full report for the details at: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/female-soldie...00977.html
