It took me almost a year to go to the mental health services at our base's med group and I wanted to speak on my experience because this might help someone understand or give someone someone the courage to go. The only time I've ever gone to a counselor was once before, while Ryan was deployed. I was a married, senior in college and the people that I ran to the most to vent about my problems were my sorority sisters. Respectfully, they had no idea what I was going through and that's ok. But I needed to vent to someone who was a third party. That one visit helped a lot during a time when I felt very alone in my experience. When I became a missileer, my experiences handling anxiety and stress changed exponentially. I'm someone who takes high stress situations as an embraced challenge. I relish it. But this time, this was different. My job experience was affecting every aspect of my life and this wasn't just the past few months, but the past year. I'll try my best to express how I felt but the key words would be
overwhelmed and
hopeless. I would study my ass off and still get questions wrong on tests or look completely idiotic in training
It took me almost a year to go to the mental health services at our base's med group and I wanted to speak on my experience because this might help someone understand or give someone someone the courage to go. The only time I've ever gone to a counselor was once before, while Ryan was deployed. I was a married, senior in college and the people that I ran to the most to vent about my problems were my sorority sisters. Respectfully, they had no idea what I was going through and that's ok. But I needed to vent to someone who was a third party. That one visit helped a lot during a time when I felt very alone in my experience. When I became a missileer, my experiences handling anxiety and stress changed exponentially. I'm someone who takes high stress situations as an embraced challenge. I relish it. But this time, this was different. My job experience was affecting every aspect of my life and this wasn't just the past few months, but the past year. I'll try my best to express how I felt but the key words would be overwhelmed and hopeless. I would study my ass off and still get questions wrong on tests or look completely idiotic in training 