Bhinneka News Online: Thursday Morning Briefing: A reporter's return to Ward 17

Thursday 19 April 2018

Thursday Morning Briefing: A reporter's return to Ward 17 – and his treatment for moral injury

Highlights

Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t just for soldiers. After years of covering war and tragedy in the Middle East and Southeast Asia for Reuters, it happened to Reuters reporter Dean Yates.

In 2016, Yates was treated in a psychiatric unit for PTSD after a career spent covering conflict and tragedy. Last July, he was back in Ward 17. It was time to face up to his moral injury and the event that drove him into mental hell. Read our latest special report.

Dean William Yates

@DeanYatesJourno

I hope my story will in some small way make more folks aware of moral injury and how it can be treated: Return to Ward 17: Making peace with lost comrades https://reut.rs/2Hf2ViX via @SpecialReports #MentalHealthNow #PTSD

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