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Whenever you get off of a deployment, everybody,
you go through this out-processing kind of thing
for a few days and they do medical checks,
they do dental checks, they do mental health checks.
When I went to Behavioral Health, they asked me a series
of questions and I didn't really think anything of it,
being agitated all the time, easily agitated, not being able
to sleep, nightmares for a while, stuff like that.
I didn't think anything of it, I just figured it was normal.
And they had suggested that I make an appointment
and see somebody else.
And I was like, OK.
And I told my squad leader what was going on.
He said, "All right we'll make sure you get
to your appointment."
And I went to that appointment
with a psychiatrist I think is what their title was.
And yeah we talked for a while and they had me do one
of those check sheet type tests.
And they said, "Wow, you actually, talking to you
and looking at your score
on this you actually scored pretty high."
And I says, "Really?"
I was like, "That's kind of a shock."
I didn't feel any different because I guess when you're
over there you kind of get wrapped up in what it's
like over there and it's kind of like a new normal.
I didn't feel like I had a problem.
I still don't feel like I have a problem but I know
that little things if gone unnoticed
or unattended can turn into big things.