TABLE 4.

Additional supporting quotes for the theme “reducing stigma around moral injury.”

Theme 2: Reducing stigma around moral injury
Breaking out of “old think”	“When in reality what you see is [that] corporations invest so much – and families as well, and religion as well, and universities as well – we invest so much in conformity. So looking for people that look like us, that talk like us, that dress like us. And as soon as somebody actually dares to deviate, dares to be the misfit, the crazy one – we punish them for it. So I think, just overall, looking at group dynamics, and healthy groups, functioning groups, it is always about providing that little bit of oxygen for people to deviate, and not being punished for it.” (CC 7).
Moving toward treating with urgency	“We never use the term Moral Injury when it comes to traumatic experiences in children. And I think we should, because the worst trauma that children suffer from is interpersonal and I think it is usually moral. Somebody takes advantage of them, somebody fails to protect them.” (CC 5).
Framing the injury as honorable (overcoming stigma)	“And so that’s why we coined in 1997 uh after I went public the term uh operational stress injury because when we called it uh uh mental problem, or mental health, uh the soldiers didn’t want anything to do with it. An so you’ve got to frame this problematic of all these walking wounded that you have around you in as much as treating them with the respect, (…) that that injury is honorable and that they deserve all the care and the same concern and sense of urgency that you give to somebody who is physically injured to some who is mentally injured.” (SE 1).