Posted on 09/19/2009 10:20:07 PM PDT by B-Chan
I’m going to read it. They’re better be fighting and the hero better get the girl and ride into the sunset at the end though.
I only wish the KOS kiddies and HuffPo readers who seize upon your tale, will tell those of their friends who need help, about the moral, rather than taking cheap shots at the military and/or FR on your account.
Cheers!
Yes, on both counts.
Less than honorable discharge for missing the boat? I mean ship.
I don’t care if people take cheap shots at me. My ego has been crushed so many times over the years that it no longer feels pain.
I do hope that my story provokes a greater awareness of depression among its readers, however. If my case had been diagnosed and treated earlier, it would have saved my loved ones from shedding countless tears.
Hideous treatment by the Navy.
I wonder if you could get that redressed . . . some of your stuff might be documented in your record.
BTW, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been demonstrated in replicated research to be over all, better than, meds. But it does take some dogged persistence in learning to change one’s thought habits.
Scripturally, TAKING EACH THOUGHT captive is a similar principle. I was probably clinically depressed most of the first 30 years of my life.
Great to be free of it.
Your warning is a very worthy one.
Congrats on your courage in sharing.
I’m not sure where in the story you could expect anyone to diagnose clinical depression. None of them were psychiatrists were they?
I wonder if they’ve gotten any better at having officers and such who can notice things that might be missed in the past?
I swear the military has a full time person in the Pentagon somewhere coming up with these. The Office of Euphemisms and Acronyms or something.
Missing Movement is extremely serious
Been a fan of yours for years B. Thanks of sharing.
Former Nuke MM/ELT type here. (Sub guy tho)
Yes of course its serious. They ain’t going to turn the aircraft carrier around to come and fetch you. Bringing the whole fleet back with it.
They probably assumed he was out partying at a brothel or something.
I know my wife is, in my life, an absolute angel sent from God in Heaven to help me over the last 32 years see me for who I am and overcome myself through my Savior.
Whatever highway, lane, or trail we trod, once we come unto Him, we enter into the same path...His path for us.
Not as far as I know. In my personal experience, the Navy medical and leadership establishment do not consider depression and other forms of psychiatric illness to be so much a matter of health care as a matter of personal weakness on the part of the sufferer. In other words, only homosexuals, crybabies, and Air Force pukes get depressed; everyone else is faking it to get out of work.
This attitude is common in civilian life, too, although far less common. One can sue a civilian employer for being terminated because of a disability, after all, but sue the Navy on the same grounds and watch what happens. The JAGs would never stop laughing!
I wonder if they’ve gotten any better at having officers and such who can notice things that might be missed in the past?
I am sure there is some kind of ping list or two for a great post like this one.
Every time i’ve seen some one miss movement it’s not them at a brothel, something else is usually going on. Command recognized that and often those guys were referred places.
Granted, it was a different Navy in my time (96-02) than B’s.
Do you know if they ever sent a plane/copter back to pick them up?
Gotta love the FTN site.
My favorite was the SNOB (Short Nuke On Board) belt buckle everyone passed down on my boat. On the back was electric penciled in FTN :p
I thoroughly endorse this post. Thankyou for articulating this issue so clearly.
If I had a dollar for every time some well-meaning soul advised me to “snap out of it...”
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