Lifelists/General Military: List

AUDIO: "All right. Look through the list until you find a hot question, then take it up."

Response Options:

Main list page

The questions below are each clickable links

• 1. Someone got killed? 2. Someone died? 3. Someone didn't die? 4. Someone got hurt? 5. Someone didn't get hurt? 6. Something you couldn't say? 7. Trouble with combat? 8. Trouble under fire? 9. Friendly fire? 10. Injury or disfigurement?

• 11. Lack of injury? 12. Equipment trouble? 13. Logistics trouble? 14. Trouble with finances? 15. Trouble with the chain of command? 16. Trouble with a buddy? 17. Trouble with deployment? 18. Extended tour? 19. Bad planning or lack of planning? 20. Bad preparation or lack of preparation?

• 21. Bad performance or no performance? 22. Bad orders or no orders? 23. Fragging? 24. Illness? 25. Sleep deprivation? 26. Torture? 27. Trouble with physical exercise? 28. Trouble with training? 29. Trouble with food? 30. Trouble with water?

• 31. Substance abuse? 32. Trouble with alcohol? 33. Problems back home? 34. Worried about things back home? 35. Trouble with communications? 36. A communication didn't get through? 37. Hazing or harassment? 38. Idleness? 39. Sexual trouble? 40. Physical trouble?

• 41. Something hurt? 42. Something should have hurt but didn't 43. Sensory overload? 44. Trouble with the authorities or military discipline? 45. Disability troubles? 46. Administrative troubles? 47. Trouble with leave or rest and recreation? 48. Mental or emotional trouble? 49. Thoughts of suicide? 50. You felt ignored?

• 51. You felt rejected? 52. Lack of help? 53. You couldn't tell someone something? 54. You wouldn't listen to someone else? 55. Trouble with the locals? 56. You couldn't speak the language? 57. Cultural trouble? 58. Religious trouble? 59. Something else wrong?

Other

• Shutting down | Don't want to continue | Realization

Write on Report:

Write the time at the start of the list
Write the prefix, such as "Generally...," or "During 'Desert Storm'," or . . .
Write the question number you are taking up and any comments
For example:

10:43 am
General army list
Q3. Bgh wjshy nmpoll kji hjgey ghdtegs.

Notes:

This is a Phase 3 activity

Don't start on this list if you're not up to Phase 3 work at PaulsRobot.

Provisional list!

The way this list is set up to selectively trigger and then discharge individual topics is not provisional, but the actual items on it and their sequence are highly provisional.

Research needed

Army veterans should be surveyed as to their actual experiences, and the stressful ones should be categorised and put on the list. Ideally, the more stressful an item, and the more people that a particular line would apply to, the higher up the list it should go.

Purpose of the list

The point of the list is bring relief to the user. It does this by broadly suggesting areas where charged topics might be found, and then leading into procedures that release the encysted sensations and emotions. The idea is to strike a happy medium as shown below. The list would ideally contain the most fruitful areas for individual charged topics to lie, and by gradually working through the list and discharging what gets brought to view, an individual can get a great deal of relief.

Too broad a view

A question like "stress in the Army?" will probably miss, as the guy has already discharged as much as a general look will achieve.

Too narrow a view

On the other hand, a question like, "Did an Irish lieutenant kick you in the nuts?" is also likely to miss as being too specific.

Just right

But a question like "someone got killed?" or "substance abuse?" might well trigger a charged topic and bring it to mind, at which point it can be explored and discharged.

Adding in Rub & Yawn is strongly recommended