Russell Carr – Medium

Russell Carr

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Apr 13, 2024

Apr 13, 2024

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Age of Empathy

An Enemy Besides the Enemy

How I learned about the risk of sexual assault in a combat zone

Apr 10, 2024

Apr 10, 2024

Published in

Black Bear

Crazy or Not?

The time I decided a soldier wasn’t psychotic, just tired of war

Apr 1, 2024

Soldier in foreground being evaluated by a doctor

Apr 1, 2024

Published in

Invisible Illness

Sixteen Years After a Soldier’s Suicide

Whether I could have saved him, the loss remains

Mar 25, 2024

A dark imaged of a soldier looking downward under his helmet

Mar 25, 2024

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Black Bear

A Soldier Shot Himself in the Leg

I fought the colonel determined to punish him for it

Mar 18, 2024

A silhouette of a soldier in the desert, holding his arrival, appearing homesick

Mar 18, 2024

Published in

Black Bear

“Doc, You Can’t Stop Me”

I didn’t really understand the reason a soldier wanted to kill himself until after he was gone

Mar 5, 2024

Squad of Three Fully Equipped and Armed Soldiers Standing on Hill in Desert Environment in Sunset Light.

Mar 5, 2024

Published in

The Memoirist

Picking up the Pieces After a Soldier’s Suicide in Iraq

What I had to do as his psychiatrist and how it all affected me

Feb 27, 2024

A dead soldier’s boots, rifle, dog tags, and helmet arranged as a standing memorial and silhouetted by the setting sun

Feb 27, 2024

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Black Bear

A Suicide’s Lonely Aftermath in a War Zone

It crushed other soldiers, medical staff, and me, his psychiatrist

Feb 19, 2024

Two soldiers sit on the rear platform of a helicopter and look out over a barren section of Iraq

Feb 19, 2024

Published in

The Memoirist

A Cold Day for Mortar Explosions

How I responded to two near-death experiences in Iraq haunted me for years

Feb 15, 2024

A Cold Day for Mortar Explosions

Feb 15, 2024

Published in

Human Parts

The Day He Left the Base for Good

As his psychiatrist, I should have been able to stop his suicide

Feb 9, 2024

The Day He Left the Base for Good

Feb 9, 2024

Russell Carr

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husband, father, retired U.S. Navy psychiatrist; friend of good fiction and peaty scotch; russellcarrauthor.com

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