My best friend since childhood has been on constant deployment rotation as a member of the 75th Rng Regiment for the past ten years (Both 2nd and 1st Battalion). The last few deployments have seemd to wear on him more than in years past. His wife lost their first child (still born) during his last deployment. Loosing his baby while deployed has really ****** him up. He was able to fly home to be with his wife but has been a different person since he got home. Contact with him has been allmost nonexistant which worries me because I have allways been the one that he could talk to/decompress with. I am good friends with his wife eho keeps me updated and he has become incrediably distant with her too.
Any advice on how to help him would be appreciated. His carreer is his life. Would getting therapy hold him back? He was there for me when my wife miscarried and made sure to make it to my wedding even though he was deploying three days afterwards. I considered putting this in the Vet. forum but didn't know if it would be appropriate. If it was anybody else I would write it off as life changing things but he is my brother even if not by blood. Sorry to be clear as mud, I just have no way to relate to what he has experienced and am finally seeing the toll it takes on our millitary.
Any advice on how to help him would be appreciated. His carreer is his life. Would getting therapy hold him back? He was there for me when my wife miscarried and made sure to make it to my wedding even though he was deploying three days afterwards. I considered putting this in the Vet. forum but didn't know if it would be appropriate. If it was anybody else I would write it off as life changing things but he is my brother even if not by blood. Sorry to be clear as mud, I just have no way to relate to what he has experienced and am finally seeing the toll it takes on our millitary.
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