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Belongs to: Therapist Reacts to Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch
I’m a soon to be veteran. Marine corps. I never served in combat luckily. However I’m a proud infantryman. Through my first 2.5 years I struggled at home. Bad. I had the shortest temper. 0 patience. Not a sliver of sympathy or empathy. It ruined my marriage of 6 years. I sought therapy to be diagnosed with PTSD, depression and anxiety. It got to a point where I attempted to take my life. I was put in meds. I formed an addiction to the side effects and would go through withdrawal when I ran out. I suffered 2 TBIs while I was in. Non combat. This changed my personality and made it even harder to cope. We were never really offered help. We were classified as broken. Liabilities. At the beginning of this year. At 26 I suffered my first divorce. Even today I have to struggle with mental health and no one to go to with some understanding. My demons come in a different form. But I’m alive. I’m a father. But something needs to be done. I’m done seeing my brothers and sisters remembered by a bracelet.
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Hi,
That’s definitely alot to have went through…
Yes you may have not been in active combat but you still were just through you’re own battles in life you definitely still been through alot here. Whatever all of this your going through you’re not alone in this struggle even though it alot to carry on your shoulders. It definitely alot on your mentally and emotionally. You still have a future ahead regardless even if the past may look like a struggle. You got this it takes time to work through all of our struggles and worries and such. You deserve alot more support then a bracelet which is definitely true. Hope what i said helps you through this struggle and what ahead of you.
Hold Fast.
Thank you for sharing your story. You have struggled so much. You fought so hard for treatment and only was able to obtain any kind of treatment when you were in the most dire of circumstances. It must be so dehumanizing to be seen as broken and a liability.
You are not a problem to be solved. You are a person to be loved. You are a person who needs support, and that doesn’t make you any less of a person.
I hope you are able to find the strength to keep fighting to survive, to keep fighting to become the person you wish you were.
Hold Fast. We Believe in You.