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Deployments are depressing
I'm a 19 year old army wife. My husband and I have been married for 5 months and he just recently got deployed to Iraq. It's our first deployment and it's the longest we have ever been apart. He will be gone for 15 months. I was handling the deployment fairly well but recently I have been feeling depressed and I have been getting sick alot more and all I want to do is sleep. Everyone keeps telling me to do stuff but I can't think of anything to do I started scrapbooking but it got boring. Does anybody have any ideas on how to keep myself from being so depressed?
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Work.
Seriously.
One of the biggest killers of the elderly is that after retirement, they don't seem to have a purpose. They stop working and then have nothing to do except exist, and its not enough. You arent retired but not having things to do besides sleep isnt a good way to live your life.
Also, as a married woman, if you file your taxes separately from your husband, its possible that you could qualify for absolutely ridiculous amounts of financial aid grant money towards college. If you want to go to school and havent, now's a good time. Get educated, find a field that interests you and dive into it. Make something more of yourself than you already are.
When in doubt, self improve.
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Are you living on base? There's has to be a support group for the wives. You could also call your husband's Chaplain and ask about that. Get involved, start a group if you have to in your own home. Put an ad in the paper and offer some refreshments. You ladies can then take turns meeting at each other's houses. It'll help you to share your pain with others who are going through the same thing. I wish you and your husband the best and tell him I said THANK YOU for fighting for our freedom!
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I am sorry that you and your husband are being seperated. Its hard.
But think about what you like to do. Maybe you could go to a place like the ymca and take up exercising everyday. Or maybe do yoga. Yoga is hard but i hear once you get used to it its very relaxing.
-hayley
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