Need Advice

[BartSimpson]

Not busting your balls, but WTF? "We have chaplins but I'm not very religious?"

Get a referral from the chaplin, not a baptism. He knows the counselors in the community that work well with the warrior mentality. You are really avoiding this mental aspect, and you likely don't want to admit that you have considered the ultimate fix, right? (rhetorical).

[keith701a]

Ultimate fix?

Not busting your balls, but WTF? "We have chaplins but I'm not very religious?"

Get a referral from the chaplin, not a baptism. He knows the counselors in the community that work well with the warrior mentality. You are really avoiding this mental aspect, and you likely don't want to admit that you have considered the ultimate fix, right? (rhetorical).

[BartSimpson]

Suicide, dude. You can't tell me it hasn't crossed your mind.

[keith701a]

It has a few times, but for my family, I could never do it.

Suicide, dude. You can't tell me it hasn't crossed your mind.

[BartSimpson]

Welcome home, we've all been there.

Did you read "the list" yet?

[keith701a]

Yes I have, but I live in Arizona, a no fault divorce state. I have been gathering what evidence I can but I queston what good it will do.

Welcome home, we've all been there.

Did you read "the list" yet?

[Fatheroffour]

Every state is a no-fault state.

[BartSimpson]

Keith,

We have a lot in common. In your job, do you want to, about 10 times a day, jerk a guy up by his collar and tell him eyeball-to-eyeball that he is seriously effe'ing up his life. We are not allowed to do that, sworn, unsworn, Doctor or LEO. Do you know what I mean?

So I throw some extra super-glue at these guys, carve my initials in their bones, and say "Have a nice day" before these dudes wake up. Macho-man gets another run in the Tenderlion, or South of Market in the Dogpatch. But I'm not changing his life, however much I try. I have glued together the entire length of MLK Boulevard in my career, yet the trauma is still happening today. The broken bones are a symptom of the greater social problem.

Because I deal with bones, everything is black and white in my world. I get guys like you, who have a psychosomatic condition, with phantom pains, and all I can care about is your kids. Your kids need you to talk to a counselor.