At least three times a week I get emails from spouses who are battling depression silently. Their husbands are usually deployed, they have children ,and they feel as if they have nowhere to turn or anyone who understands what they are going through. I know how they feel because I too have endured it. I […] Read more…
Postpardumployment Depression…It Exists After Deployments…Trust Me!
It had been 15 long months of that stupid deployment. I had suffered countless sleepless nights. Some of them attributed to me worrying about him over “there” and other times was because I was a stay at home mom who took naps throughout the day , making for some long lonely nights. Then the day […] Read more…
War At Home: My Battle with Depression and Anxiety
Yesterday while surfing Twitter I came across a link to a news article about a blog that I had visited a few times in which the blog owner who is an Army Wife wrote a goodbye letter to her readers. She was going to commit suicide. While I don’t pretend to know her thoughts and […] Read more…