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your mind and body are broken down at a younger age than you expect. Before you know it, you are 30 years old it you feel like you’re 100!
I served in all three types of Army, Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserves. My total service time ran from 1/2006 to 11/2011. I started in the Kentucky Army National Guard, went Active Duty, went New York Army National Guard, to Army Reserves. My position in the military was primarily as a Flight Operations Specialist.
In this position I was responsible for scheduling and dispatching tactical aircraft missions, and ensuring their ability to run safely and smoothly.
The negative effect from my service experience was my medical and mental health issues. As a direct result of my service I am now disabled. It was, and still is, difficult for me to accept therapy related assistance for my PTSD and other issues. I must keep going because my family deserves someone who can love and not be angry all of the time. At times I feel as though, because I am a Veteran who didn’t deploy, that there is a lot of backlash from other Veterans who did deploy, or civilians who have family who have deployed. I understand that there is a high volume of deployments in today’s military and military families, but I believe that because I didn’t deploy doesn’t mean I am any lesser of a Veteran than my comrades who did deploy. We both took an oath, and served honorably, and did what was asked of us at any given time, we were both ready to go where and whenever our Country’s need took us.
As a Veteran, medications are a very large part of our lives. I personally had reached a point where medications were no longer working for me but against me. I am in weekly therapy as well as weekly talk therapy over the phone, this seems to be helping me more than anything else has. I believe it is a sign of strength to admit you need help especially for myself, and admitting I needed help from others and finally allowing outsiders into my world and my mind.
The source of my PTSD is Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and when I was assaulted, I sustained a head injury. As a result of my head injury and other military experiences
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