Mental Health
This forum covers mental health issues within the Navy for Active, Reserve, Veterans and Family.
If you are struggling with stress, or have suicidal thoughts, don't keep it to yourself - talk to someone.
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Personnel leadership saw the contract as one of the pivotal efforts to modernize Navy HR systems. But Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer Jane Rathbun, along with the Department of Government Efficiency, killed it — ignoring warnings that the move would stall progress, cripple promotion boards and hurt the Navy’s ability to recruit and retain talent, according to a document submitted to the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee by Navy personnel officials, obtained by Federal News Network and verified by the subcommittee. -
Tuesday Tacos... Iran still has "considerable" abilities to threaten American forces and other interests in the Middle East despite Israeli and U.S. bombardment in recent days, the admiral nominated to lead U.S. forces in the region told lawmakers Tuesday.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – What’s on your to-do list this summer? Maybe you’re planning to spend time at the pool, go to a barbecue, or take a vacation. But don’t take a vacation from your health this summer. “Now can be a great time for you and your family to catch up on preventive health care and take care of other health needs,” said Jeannine Pickrell, M.S., RN, director for Population Health and Disease Management, TRICARE Health Plan, at the Defense Health Agency. Here are four suggested ways you can use your TRICARE benefits this summer:
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Tuesday Tacos... The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it. The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.
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I struggled to keep a job. I started using my GI Bill for nursing school, just to end up too depressed to continue. I felt, and sometimes still do, like any day now I’ll just wake up back on the ship. After a year or so, I couldn’t take it. I tried VA. The first psychiatrist I saw diagnosed me with PTSD like it was the common cold, dismissing me with an Ambien prescription. It helped, but I was afraid of becoming dependent, so I never refilled it. Other therapists were quick to push religion, which doesn’t align with me. Aside from that, their help was mostly handouts and suggestions for activities like equine therapy.
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