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?
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’m not sure where in the story you could expect anyone to diagnose clinical depression. None of them were psychiatrists were they?
Most competent GPs can diagnose and treat clinical depression — increasingly so as awareness is growing. Psychiatrists only really get involved if you’ve got something more exciting, like bipolar disorder, that requires treatment with medication.