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how can I help him from oceans away?
My husband is currently deployed. He has been deployed for 2 weeks now, but away from me for 3. I talked to him this morning and he says he isn't doing good. He said he is more depressed than he has ever been. He said he feels like this deployment is turning him against himself. He was in the Army before he was Navy, did a tour in Pakistan and got blown up, and yet he says this is way harder on him than that was. It is killing him being away from me and he doesn't know what to do. The stress is getting to him. He even flipped out and yelled at his LPO the other day. It breaks my heart to hear him telling me all this, but I don't know what to do. I try talking to him and telling him everything will be ok, and that he has the strength to push through this. I know these are just words though, and they can only help so much. I know that no matter how much I try to support him and help him, eventually it is all gonna build up until he just can't take it. I don't know what else I can do to help him. He said they are talking about sending him home because of his anger management problems and PTSD. I would love to have him home, but I don't want it to be for the wrong reasons. He said the only thing he cares about is getting home to me so he mentioned using this to his advantage and freaking out on purpose just so they send him home. Don't get me wrong, my husband is not an angry person. He is such a loving and caring person. But he does have PTSD from Pakistan. It is rare that it effects him that much, but apparently the deployment was enough to stress him out so much that it is coming back. Because of the PTSD, his anger gets worse. He said he feels like a ticking time bomb and he doesn't know how long he can keep calm. What should I do? I try to calm him down as much as posible, and it is working for now, but I know it won't work forever. If they don't send him home, then he will be leaving port and actually going underway in just over a week. I won't be able to talk to him when he is underway so I won't be able to keep him calm at that point. How am I suppose to help him from oceans away? I feel so helpless and it is killing me!
Like I said, my husband is not normally like this. He is not an angry person. This is so out of his normal which is what scares me the most. I have only seen him have one PTSD moment before, and that is the only time he gets like this. Now he is so far away and I can't help talk him down from it. This isn't like him and it terrifies me.
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Permalink Reply by Angie on
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He needs to get help! His health is the most important thing. He needs to ask for help from his bosses. If he gets sent home so be it, worry about that part if it comes.
Some people can't handle ship life. It is way different than the Army.
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Permalink Reply by NavyWifeTrivette on
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He was already getting help when he was in Groton for Sub School. They told him to just go to GA and not worry about it. The way they acted, it seemed like they just wanted more able bodies and didn't care about the possible effects. Now that he is deployed nobody on the boat seems to be helping him. If they send him home I know he will get the help he needs, but I am afraid of what could happen if they don't send him home. Nobody is talking to him about it or helping him through. They just keep pushing him to work more and get his qulifications done. I have been his only saving grace so far, so I don't know what he would do if they didn't send him home and he had to go underway.
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