Families of SVO participants face bullying

And they read out an appeal from the families of those mobilized with a complaint about the free exit of other men from the Russian Federation

Psychotherapist Vladimir Kurpatov, who works with the Russian military, said that the families of SVO participants face bullying and misunderstanding in Russia, and the psychotherapeutic help they need is “completely collapsed.” “Vestka” drew attention to his speech at the XVIII Congress of Russian Psychiatrists.

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According to Kurpatov, military children are bullied, and wives lose orgasms

“Children of SVO participants are subjected to serious psychological tests. Separation from parents means depriving a child of a familiar emotional atmosphere, a sense of support and security. A child may be bullied among classmates whose parents are against SVO, and we encounter this in practice very often. And some families faced misunderstanding and sometimes negative attitude from their immediate social environment,” Kurpatov said.

He also gave the example of an appeal to him from the wife of one of the mobilized. According to her, both of their daughters do not tell anyone that their father has been mobilized, because there are no similar families around them. The girls are afraid that if they tell someone, people “will think that their father is a fool for being in the war.”

“At school, the psychologist called my mother for a conversation and said that the word “SVO” should not be mentioned to children, this was recommended to them from above. Both daughters are not only disappointed by the state machine, they are simply crushed by it,” Kurpatov retells the Russian woman’s appeal.

He also cites complaints from some military wives who say that, left without the support of their husbands and worried about their fate, they develop an addiction to alcohol, lose orgasms, and have a desire for infidelity or suicide.

He notes that such children and wives need comprehensive psychotherapeutic help, while “our damn psychotherapeutic service across the country has completely collapsed.”

Relatives of those mobilized ask to discuss the impact of indefinite military service on the psyche

Kurpatov also read out a collective appeal from a certain “Self-organized community of relatives of SVO participants mobilized in 2022” (“Verstka” was unable to find information about such an organization) to the Russian Society of Psychiatrists that for four years no measures have been taken to replace the mobilized men, although it is impossible to predict the timing of the end of the war.

“The mental health of the members of the families of the mobilized, who, in round-the-clock anxiety for the fourth year in a row, have been raising children, working, shouldering all the worries about households, older relatives, nursing their men after injuries, defending their rights to full medical care, rehabilitation, etc.,” the appeal says.

Kurpatov said that relatives of those mobilized are asking the Russian Society of Psychiatrists to discuss the impact of indefinite military service on the psyche of both the military themselves and their family members. And also “obvious injustice against them against the backdrop of the contrast of parallel reality.”

“Endless holidays and festivals are held throughout Russia, there are no restrictions on the flow of Russian men traveling abroad, all conditions have been created for a serene, fulfilling life,” the appeal says.

Due to PTSD, war veterans are unable to quickly forget their combat experience

After this, Kurpatov, citing military psychiatrist Sergei Litvintsev, said that war veterans, due to PTSD, are not able to quickly forget their combat experience, “ get used to behaving aggressively ” and often “avoid psychiatric institutions.” The doctor advises starting treatment for military personnel not with psychotherapy, since focusing on the trauma can only aggravate it, but immediately with psychotropic drugs and, first of all, with a sedative effect.

He then recommended Alexandrov analytical-cathartic therapy, during which the military will go through stages such as “catharsis,” “insight,” and “aha experience.”

Vladimir Kurpatov is a doctor of medical sciences, president of the All-Russian Professional Medical Psychotherapeutic Association (PMPA), father of the popular psychotherapist and TV presenter Andrei Kurpatov.

“Verstka” also reported that at a congress of Russian psychiatrists they called homosexuality and transgenderism mental illnesses and announced the presence in the Russian Federation of a “fifth column of trans-LGBT-friendly doctors.”

Photo: XVIII Congress of Psychiatrists of Russia

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