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This is something that needs to be brought up to the units chaplain for sure. The family can try and get in touch with the chaplain, try to avoid his unit. I am not sayin they would do somethin but it could hurt him. Grunt units are pretty tight usually and it will not look good on him. I am sure someone has had to have noticed a change in him. He needs this to be checked because it could also be assessed as post tramatic syndrome and that is not somethin to be messin with. See a chaplain, he will help.
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I'm not in the Marines but I am in the AF and I also have clinical depression. It's a horrible thing to have. It runs in my family so it wasn't a shock when I was diagnosed last year. I was so miserable all of the time and I just remember staying in my dorm room for days crying and sleeping. I didn't want to see any one or talk to anyone. You get so caught up in being miserable and focusing on the negative that it's hard to concentrate on anything else.
When I was diagnosed they put me on SSRI's. Clinical depression is a disorder in which not enough serotonin is released in your brain. The SSRI's help to correct that and they are wonderful things. I was pretty against taking meds but once I got on them I felt so much better. I was on them for over a year and recently when I was deployed I decided I didn't need them anymore and I've been off of them for almost 4 months. If you have any questions I'd be happy to try and answer them... It's a crappy place to be but I know where your brother's at and when you're at that point getting back up to the top seems nearly impossible. |
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It sounds to me that he suffers from PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Not sure what to tell you other then to have talk to chaplin first because its all confidential also I saw a Phone number for it somewhere I will try to track it down. Its to civilians doctors so that the fear of ruining a career is removed I know thats the biggest reason people dont go talk about this sort of thing is they dont want to be branded with a bad Image.
No luck on the number but I have this http://www.ncptsd.org/ |
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another one to try is http://www.iraqwarveterans.org
If it is PTSD it is something he should deal with right away. Something like that can only be diagnosed by a pdoc though. My father had PTSD when I was growing up.... Not a good thing..... I don't know if your brother has children or not, but trust me, something like that can have a big impact on a kid. |
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