Reply #12: My friend's ex is dead b/c he was fearful of redeployment

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He'd already been there twice and couldn't face going back again. He was having trouble getting mental health treatment when he got stateside and started self-medicating with alcohol and street drugs. He was having nightmares so he was doing speed so he wouldn't sleep but it keyed him up so badly he drank. He was depressed and had been talking suicide for a while. All he wanted was "out" so he wouldn't have to go back. He had been notified that his discharge was going through and made arrangements to move in with my friend. He boxed up some of his stuff and shipped it out to California. Then he started getting freaked out and began binging. He was afraid they'd cancel his discharge and call him back up. We're not really sure what happened after that except that he started drinking in earnest. At some point, he and apparently fell and hit his head. He bled to death in his drug and alcohol stupor. He was found dead on Veteran's Day last year, the same day his first shipment of boxes arrived at friend's house.

He was so close to being free and alive. Now he's just free. Those fuckers are destroying so many lives. If there is a hell I hope they rot in it. :grr: