Looking to ask someone in the Canadian Military some questions!

Cool!

Thanks homie. I was on disability due to some traumatic childhood issues that led to me being a very emotionally unstable teen. I mainly dealt with anxiety etc.

It was cripping until I got therapy. The extent of the trauma is pretty intense and involves child abuse so posting here may not be the place.

I got in street fights and was generally an unsavory citizen. I always wanted to join the military but started having flashbacks at around 17 and it totally derailed my life. I got charged with assault in 2011 and was placed on disability after revealing that I had ptsd. The disability placement was almost a legal move to avoid prison but I did benefit from the acknowledgement that I required some help to get over what I had suffered as a child.

I want to repay this country by serving. Or the people in general. Coalition force that will take me. I do not fit in well with the spoiled ones. I feel as though I have been changed from what I have endured and I spoke to many war veterans in therapy and they really understood me better than anyone and now that I am at peace with my past I want to serve and repay for the help I have received.

That said! I am not a ptsd case that curls up in a ball at the sight of conflict. I just could not perform in school due to people always being behind me etc. I developed a brutal temper in my teens that has been extinguished.

I just want a chance to show that I can be a good team mate. I also feel as though this is my dream and that if I cannot succeed at this then my abuser won.

I cant have that and will try my hardest to get in. Thank you.

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