Moral Injury: An Extremely Damaging Phenomenon

  Moral injury is a wound, an attack from the environment on your system of beliefs, principles, and values. Do you have a job where you have to do things that go against your principles? That’s a blow to your morale. Do you have a relationship in which your partner boycotts your opinions? That’ll also damage your morale. Moral injury isn’t discussed much. One group that has a tendency to suffer from this particular psychological reality is health professionals. That’s because many of them find themselves in the position of having to face important ethical dilemmas in the midst of…