**TRIGGER WARNING** When you arrive for your first day at boot camp, you are given your battle buddy. You make friendships through times of struggle, through war, through death, through it all. That being said, what are we so opposed to asking those same people for help when we need it most? Is it not wanting to be seen as weak? Is it because you just don’t want anyone to know that you are suffering while it appears they are not? In the end, we don’t know what someone else is dealing with. This video is a perfect example of being in the right place at the right time. He had his 6. https://youtu.be/Gv0wk1B6Hco (fb)

How many of you have PTSD because of survivor’s guilt? How many of you ask why your soldiers are in “the Sandbox”? How many of US turn to alcohol or drugs in an effort to numb the pain of the decisions you made? Whether you are a veteran or a first responder, we make choices. We have to. Some of those are life and death. Some result in the death of a patient and some of them result in the death of one of our own. Either way, we have to remember, that WE signed on for this. We took their pain away as best we could but now, we have to take our own pain away. I’m begging you all PLEASE get help before it’s too late. **The National Suicide Hotline is 800-273-8255** ***National Suicide Hotline Text Service 838255*** ****You can even chat online**** https://youtu.be/on6YJlELcAE (fb)