I was reading a couple of @kindness’s posts and saw that he goes to the VA. This got me to thinking and I just wanted to say to @kindness and all the military people who served on here, “Thank you for your service”.
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Thank you.
The U.S. military doesn’t hate what’s in front of them, they just love what’s behind them.
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Thank you 151515
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Thanks for your support! 
I serve in the Navy right now
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How can you serve if you have schizophrenia? I thought that it disqualified you.
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I was diagnosed while in service. And it can take Many months to a year to get medical seperation or medically retired from military
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You’re welcome!
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Thank you for your service!
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I spent four years in the army from 1977-81. There are a lot of hardships in military life. A lot of those guys spend years away from their family. A lot of them have spent a good part of their lives stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They deserve a lot of respect.
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I was a bachelor’s prepared R.N. in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corp. from 1987- 1989. During peacetime. I worked mostly on the surgical floor. But, I floated to the medical floor, the stroke rehab floor, to orthopedics, to oncology, to postpartum, to the emergency room, to the special care unit which was like the ICU, and I even took care of the neonates once. I really don’t know how I did it. The hand of God was upon me. He always has been, all of my life. Here I was, sza, on no medications, and taking care of patients. Go figure.
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Thank you to everyone in the military!
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Yeah the charity that will be Housing me deals with those suffering with a severe mental illness and with Veterans.
They do great work with Vets as well.
Providing Services, Shelter etc…
Thank you to those that served in the Military!
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Thank you for your service. It must have been hard to do that without medication.
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I respect the military service. My grandfather was a P.O.W. in WW II and my brother is in Afghanistan right now on a contract job. I worry about him. It’s the third time he’s been over there. the first time he was in the Air Force.
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It was! It was hell! Being a nurse is hard on anybody but to a sz, it is many thousands of times harder. I had a hell of a time. I worked in nursing for ten years. My pdoc says that I accomplished the impossible.
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It was very hard! My pdoc says that I accomplished the impossible.
You deserve a lot of respect. Not many people could have done what you did. Being a nurse without schizophrenia must be hard enough, but being a nurse with schizophrenia must be terrifically difficult.
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