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Will The Va Help With Depression?
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Kody.usaf
I am in the USAF. I have experienced depression since basic training in 2002. Never before. Everytime I experienced the depression was related to military. I got so bad in 2003-2004 that I over dosed on pills and cut myself, causing my heart to stop and was able to be revived. I'm just a reservist so the af had no idea. I had told them however that I had depression. I struggled thought my af career because of this. But slowly got better without pills. Eventually I was able to volunteer for a deployment. I had a talk with my commander about my depression and felt good about it all. I went to my deployment training for a month and did great. Then went on to my deployed location. Once there I started to struggle again. My wife had our son while there, and her dad was threatening to kill himself due to a failing marriage where his wife was cheating. My wife was very upset and stressed causing me more than I could handle alone. So I went to the pastor and til him I'm struggling and told him my past, noting I have no intention of hurting myself, but am feeling depressed. He said go to the doctor and tell him all Thai, which he also had done. He will give you some anti depressants and they help a lot. So I did. Once I told my past with the mil, the doc freaked. He profiled me and a week later I was in a phsyc ward on my way home. Never once did I do anything to hurt myself nor did I threaten to. I made it clear I wouldnt. And even said I want to stay deployed. Once home I was cleared by the docs at home station. After that my unit gave me an art 15 for saying I was good to go before hand. Took 500$, took a stripe, put me on no pay no points, and now will discharge me. All I want to do is serve my country and have come so far and worked so hard. I even lost 95 lbs to pass my pt test. Yes I was that big during my more depressed days. Can or will the VA help me with this. I feel betrayed by the air force. And all my unit can talk about is the money spent to fly me home. A week after I got home my wife's dad killed himself. I don't regret being here for my family during that. But I am very saddened that I was punished so harshly for having depression. All they say is talk to someone and we will help. Help kick you in the &$$ right out the door after taking all honor and pride is more like it. So again, is it worth going to the VA for help? What shoul I do?
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