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It takes a far greater strength to speak up and admit you need help than suffering in silence. There should be no stigma for those that need assistance. Like so many other battles, stepping up is the hardest part.
I agree with this. I have a couple relatives who are military vets who suffer from PTSD.
I lost a dear friend to suicide. Even though he committed suicide, he perhaps was still twice the man that average men are.
The guy's pain tolerance level was so high, it was scary. He was in the Marine corps for a total of 12 years, and when he came back, he masked the pain with alcohol, eventually, he took his life.
Weakness? absolutely not. Gave up on hope? not necessarily either I think he just didn't find the proper treatment he desperately needed. If he used EMDR, maybe he could have been cured.
I lost a dear friend to suicide. Even though he committed suicide, he perhaps was still twice the man that average men are.
The guy's pain tolerance level was so high, it was scary. He was in the Marine corps for a total of 12 years, and when he came back, he masked the pain with alcohol, eventually, he took his life.
Weakness? absolutely not. Gave up on hope? not necessarily either I think he just didn't find the proper treatment he desperately needed. If he used EMDR, maybe he could have been cured.
He is forever my dear friend and I miss him.
Of course it is weakness. People can be strong in some areas and weak in others. The purpose of therapy etc. is to make the weak strong.
No. My dad was deployed to Iraq twice. Once at the beginning of the war - SeaBees and Marine Corps of Engineers - and once toward the end. He was the oldest SeaBee in Iraq. Tough as nails, both mentally and physically. After his second deployment, he changed. The gratitude of the Iraqi peoples had, for the most part, evaporated. Between the mental frustration of seeing how things were going wrong, and the physical; actually dodging bullets and worrying about roadside bombs, it wasn't surprising that he came back affected by PTSD.
What hasn't changed is his mental strength. For months, he jumped at loud noises and suffered from a kind of general depression, but that didn't mean that his mind was any weaker. If anything, having to deal with the stresses from combat, while fitting back into society, family and job showed how he is even stronger now. Asking for help has no bearing on being weak or strong, either. While he didn't seek help for the PTSD, I'll throw a comment out there about the terrible state of the VA. His knees are shot. He was on a waiting list for an appointment at the VA forever, and when he finally went in, he was told he had to reschedule because the VA didn't have the right paperwork for him, and what they ended up covering, in the end, was a joke.
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