1LT John Mills 4722071 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Does the army give mental health waivers? I was a psych nurse 1LT. I have been stable on my meds for 8 years. 2019-06-14T13:23:04-04:00 1LT John Mills 4722071

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Does the army give mental health waivers? I was a psych nurse 1LT. I have been stable on my meds for 8 years.

2019-06-14T13:23:04-04:00 2019-06-14T13:23:04-04:00 SFC Michael D. 4722279

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If they don&#39;t, I need Psych Nurses at the San Antonio State Hospital. The pay ain&#39;t great but the benifits are. Not trying to be greedy, psych Nurses are needed all over. Just saying, I could use yoor experience.

2019-06-14T14:36:02-04:00 2019-06-14T14:36:02-04:00 SSG Dale London 4723134

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A word of caution - I went back into uniform as a chaplain after serving 16 years as a soldier and a break in service of 13 years (I was too old for the US Army so I joined the Brits). I thought my PTSD was a thing of the past and that I could handle it all. Imagine my surprise when I found myself right back in the stink of it while training for an Afghan deployment. Fits of rage, sleeplessness, the nightmares, all of it -- and I was the PADRE, for crying out loud. I was self-aware enough to realize that if I deployed with my unit in the state that I was in, I was going to be a liability instead of the support and force multiplier a chaplain is supposed to be. I resigned my commission and went into a parish. It was quite possibly the most humiliating and soul-crushing event in my entire military career. But it taught me a valuable lesson: I am not, nor have I ever been bullet proof. I am not the exception to the rule.<br />I have a great deal of sympathy for the vets in my parish (and there are quite a few) because I understand the hell that many of them live in every day. I am lucky because God heals me. Jesus keeps me grounded and focusses my efforts where they really need to be.<br />It may be that you are stable now and will remain so if you go back in. But take a tip from me: be on your guard and if you find yourself going down that old path, run -- do not walk -- run to the doctor and lay it ALL on the table.<br />The last thing you want to be is a liability or -- worse -- a statistic.

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