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1 min readApr 13, 2024

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Russell Carr
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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

8 min readApr 10, 2024

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Russell Carr
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Black Bear

Crazy or Not?

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

8 min readApr 1, 2024

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Soldier in foreground being evaluated by a doctor

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Russell Carr
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Invisible Illness

Sixteen Years After a Soldier’s Suicide

Whether I could have saved him, the loss remains

7 min readMar 25, 2024

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A dark imaged of a soldier looking downward under his helmet

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Russell Carr
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Black Bear

A Soldier Shot Himself in the Leg

I fought the colonel determined to punish him for it

7 min readMar 18, 2024

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

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Russell Carr
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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

8 min readMar 5, 2024

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

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Russell Carr
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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

10 min readFeb 27, 2024

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

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Russell Carr
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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

8 min readFeb 19, 2024

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

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Russell Carr
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The Memoirist

A Cold Day for Mortar Explosions

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

8 min readFeb 15, 2024

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A Cold Day for Mortar Explosions

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Russell Carr
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Human Parts

The Day He Left the Base for Good

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

8 min readFeb 9, 2024

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The Day He Left the Base for Good

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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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