The Difference Between Moral Injury and PTSD

Moral injury is not a diagnosis, so you're not hearing medical providers use the term as much. But our VA's are using it, right? And what we've identified in the history of it is it actually started out with medical professionals seeing veterans come into a hospital and they would get triaged. Their values, their ethics, those are the invisible scars. That's the what it could have showed us, the guilt and the shame.