Comments on: Restless http://www.ffpblog.com/2007/08/restless/ The Journal of a Combat Medic Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gregory http://www.ffpblog.com/2007/08/restless/#comment-291 gregory Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:52:29 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=201#comment-291 <p><img src="http://www.ffpblog.com/images/smileys/grrr.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="grrr" style="border:0;" /> i’m the only one allowed to be this depressed. </p> grrr i’m the only one allowed to be this depressed.

]]> By: Lin http://www.ffpblog.com/2007/08/restless/#comment-290 Lin Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:12:03 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=201#comment-290 <p>Stay alert!  Stay focused!  We WANT you to come back to the States alive and as healthy as you can.  All of you.</p> <p>The recalcitrant soldiers:  Is it possible that this isn’t recalcitrance but results of clinical depression?  Can you talk with them individually or as a group?  Maybe find out why they are not performing as they should?  Remind them that not only their lives but everyone else’s in the unit depend on them just as they depend on others.  Just thoughts, NOT reflections on you.  In fact, I’d bet you’ve already tried these things.  If I had a magic wand I’d loan it to you.  :o)</p> <p>Sleepless nights:  I can’t imagine being where you are and not having these.  Again, possibility of depression?  Definitely tension and anxiety so perhaps check with a doc for meds?  </p> <p>Wife and daughter:  Trust in whatever Higher Power you believe in that they will always love you.  If the worst happens, know they will miss you but will continue on successfully.  Do not try to hide your feelings or memories from your wife but explain that they will recurr for quite some period of time.  You BOTH will have to work through them.  It won’t be easy but with love and work you’ll make it.  </p> <p>I didn’t mean to be preachy but you asked and I answered.  :o)</p> <p>Good news for me….my son will be home on terminal leave from the Marine Corp 2 weeks from today.  I have missed him very much these past 4 years.  Now I am so anxious to get him here I can hardly stand it!  </p> <p>Go and rest so you can stay alert and focussed, my friend.  Good thoughts going in your direction. </p> Stay alert!  Stay focused!  We WANT you to come back to the States alive and as healthy as you can.  All of you.

The recalcitrant soldiers:  Is it possible that this isn’t recalcitrance but results of clinical depression?  Can you talk with them individually or as a group?  Maybe find out why they are not performing as they should?  Remind them that not only their lives but everyone else’s in the unit depend on them just as they depend on others.  Just thoughts, NOT reflections on you.  In fact, I’d bet you’ve already tried these things.  If I had a magic wand I’d loan it to you.  :o )

Sleepless nights:  I can’t imagine being where you are and not having these.  Again, possibility of depression?  Definitely tension and anxiety so perhaps check with a doc for meds? 

Wife and daughter:  Trust in whatever Higher Power you believe in that they will always love you.  If the worst happens, know they will miss you but will continue on successfully.  Do not try to hide your feelings or memories from your wife but explain that they will recurr for quite some period of time.  You BOTH will have to work through them.  It won’t be easy but with love and work you’ll make it. 

I didn’t mean to be preachy but you asked and I answered.  :o )

Good news for me….my son will be home on terminal leave from the Marine Corp 2 weeks from today.  I have missed him very much these past 4 years.  Now I am so anxious to get him here I can hardly stand it! 

Go and rest so you can stay alert and focussed, my friend.  Good thoughts going in your direction.

]]> By: Joe Rompers http://www.ffpblog.com/2007/08/restless/#comment-289 Joe Rompers Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:10:01 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=201#comment-289 <p>I would come to your funeral. </p> I would come to your funeral.

]]> By: kbug http://www.ffpblog.com/2007/08/restless/#comment-288 kbug Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:20:46 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=201#comment-288 <p>I imagine those are the kinds of thoughts that run through many minds over there. I never asked my son what he thought of when he couldn’t sleep, but I know he had many restless nights while he was there last year. Just hang in there, it won’t be too much longer now. I say that, but I remember Seth’s last 4 months passed so slowly that it about drove me crazy. I can say with certainty, though, that the time will pass…eventually. Take care….. <img src="http://www.ffpblog.com/images/smileys/smile.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="smile" style="border:0;" /> </p> I imagine those are the kinds of thoughts that run through many minds over there. I never asked my son what he thought of when he couldn’t sleep, but I know he had many restless nights while he was there last year. Just hang in there, it won’t be too much longer now. I say that, but I remember Seth’s last 4 months passed so slowly that it about drove me crazy. I can say with certainty, though, that the time will pass…eventually. Take care….. smile

]]> By: Marie http://www.ffpblog.com/2007/08/restless/#comment-287 Marie Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:23:34 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=201#comment-287 <p>Fuck! </p> Fuck!

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