Moral injury

Via Military Missions Network on Facebook: "Moral injury is not classified as a mental disorder such as the more familiar post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. By definition, moral injury can develop when a veteran experiences or witnesses acts during war that violate deeply held moral beliefs. It may stem from the act of killing or witnessing death and may leave veterans struggling with their faith and experiencing inner conflict."

Other points:
  • "Moral injury also may present itself as the spiritual struggle experienced by veterans who feel they’ve violated their moral code during war or betrayed God."
  • "As a result of moral injury, some veterans may experience shame or guilt and many veterans are seeking forgiveness from a moral authority…It may be God, peers, family or friends."
  • "Even if a person is not very religious, those concepts come from a spiritual part of who they are"


I wonder if other professions can be subject to moral injury. For example, could someone told to prepare a false report suffer a form of moral injury?