Another Sad Deployed Soldier/Dad

[MichelleLT]

Saw your post on SDs thread and decided to drop in. Thank you so much for your service. It is so sad to see so many of us soldiers on here - I went through the opposite - my XH got very depressed on his deployment (1 yr in Baghdad with an INF BN), started drinking heavily, came home (if he waited that long lol) and had a few As (couple online, one physical that I know of). I thought that being M to someone else who was also in the military would actually mean we understood each other better, but he couldn't understand much of anything through his depression (nor would he admit anything was wrong and seek help since his unit had a very strong stigma as well - gotta love the infantry ).

Sounds like you are having a rough time of it. Like deployments aren't hard enough you get to have a bunch of other stuff dropped on you. And knowing a few guys from the 82nd, I definitely understand what you are saying about the attitude there. There is a reason those guys are in my unit now and not still with the 82nd lol.

Despite the stigma, the regs have changed. Things are confidential for the most part. It can't affect your security clearance if you have one. If you really need to talk, you can call military one source for free over the phone counseling, totally confidential. There are lots of resources out there and the other guys won't be able to find out about some of them.

You have a good first-line sup at least?

Hang in there. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward.