Suicide is the ultimate selfish act. He had a wife and three children. What the hell was he thinking? I did my time in Afghanistan, came home and got on with my life. I’m proud of my Afghanistan service and have no regrets.
Hey,c'mon....that's wrong!! Depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain that sometimes gets so bad that it causes its victim to kill him/herself.Do you also call those with serious heart disease "selfish" because they can't walk up a flight of stairs? He had a brain disease that wound up causing his demise.
Of *course* you should be proud of your service but might it be that the fact that you've been able to "get on with your life" simply means that you're one of the lucky ones and that M1 Tanker was one of the very *unlucky* ones?
Further, meds don't do as promised every time. A friend accidentally od'd on SRRIs cuz the dosage was upped beyond belief causing seratonin syndrome.
In this case with our freeper, when normal thought is disrupted 24/7 by ptsd (kindling, slp deprivation, etc), it is impossible to be logical and rational.
Your comments show the stigma that exists in matters involving mental illness. Nobody wants to admit they have a problem cuz of the stigma of mental illness.
You turned out okay but every person is different.