They Sent Her Back to Combat on Heavy Narcotics

About this video

A Canadian female soldier recounts her experience being attached to a British unit in Afghanistan’s Panjwai district for approximately four to five days. She describes serving as a CST (cultural support team member) searching women and children during compound raids, experiencing intense combat, and witnessing the death of a British soldier from an IED. After returning to base, she reports that military doctors prescribed her heavy narcotics for acute PTSD and then sent her back into combat operations without informing her superiors of her medication.

Key takeaways

• The guest describes being sent on operations with minimal briefing, borrowed equipment from her sergeant, and being the only female support with a British unit of over 100 soldiers
• The guest recounts that after witnessing a British soldier killed by an IED and participating in casualty recovery, she experienced what doctors called acute PTSD with symptoms including sleeplessness and pacing
• The guest reports that military doctors at Kandahar Airfield prescribed multiple heavy narcotics (including sleep, anxiety, and depression medications) and sent her back to combat operations at a forward operating base without informing her chain of command

Episode details: published April 19, 2026 · 5.4K views · 29:04 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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