The Masks We Wear: An SF Soldier Speaks Out
January 13, 2021 by Special Guest
by Joshua Thompson, US Army, Special Forces
If I were to tell you that the brain is the most complicated organ in our body, would you believe me? The brain serves multiple tasks within each portion. A healthy brain placates into a healthy and stable individual, contrasted by the brain that may be altered by malfunctions. For the Service Members and Veterans that have been fighting the War on Terror for the last 19 years, their brains have been affected on and off the battlefield. The common visible effect is portrayed emotions.
Merriam Webster defines emotions as: “1- a conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feelings usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body, 2- a state of feeling.â€
We, as humans, use our emotions as a form of communication from one to another. We associate these emotions with whatever task we are negotiating at the time. Each environment with which a person is associated invokes an emotion. People that are associated with you in each of these environments see you accompanied by the emotions you portray regularly. Each environment requires a mask to be worn to navigate through as we select and choose who sees which emotion we portray.
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