You average 15 posts a day, set yourself a 10 post a day limit, see if you can stick to it and use those 10 messages to convey messages of positivity.
I too served, and you're right afterward they discard you like last night's garbage. Army recruiter's are worse than used car salesmen, and they don't have things like lemon laws to get your money (time) back. Your body is beat to shit, permanent physical/mental injuries occur even if all you did was walk around with your 110 lb kit in field exercises and never deploy, or in supply, unloading pallets of tires, etc etc. Then you try to hit up the VA and they be like, "here have a peppermint" and you be like, "but I came in for a spine injury"
could rant for hours about how military benefits sound to a young person, and how bad they actually are, but I'd be beating a dead horse. But we did offer our sacrifice, and it is accepted.
Donating to wounded warrior offers me some solace, after a decade or so i ended up finding a life pattern that seems ok, i sleep decent i eat decent, i traded alcohol for weed. Ive always played EQ, and other games, off and on since i was 15. Immersive games were a problem for me at 15, but after serving as an adult i found something theraputic, being able to switch off the RL brain and switch on the elf brain. WWP will offer services to new generations of vets, with new problems, so offering up some money to help my brothers and sisters deal with their sacrifice seems right to me, it sits well.
i realized awhile back that setting high expectations of government is setting yourself up for disappointment.
Don't self sabotage, there is something you like, you need to allow yourself to like it.
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