Medhold Stories

No, I don't think I am.

Yeah, you're a fucking idiot. Why the hell would you ever think you could go say you have depression in the military (especially as a new private) and think they wouldn't kick your dumb ass out for being a liability? You should have known better.

>Alex is dorm chef
>dorm chef is canadian
>doesn't know why he joined USAF
>starts running around at night
>crawls into people beds
>one night went into lounge room
>lounge room has alarm
>desk calls EC's
>"WHY IS THE DOOR OPEN?"
>"I don't know sir"
>"CHECK"
>5 minutes later hear EC walk back to intercom
>"Sir Trainee Alex was sleepwalking"
>"DORM CHIEF ALEX?"
>intercom dies
>TSgt didn't even write it up
>Entire staff knows he's faking
>dorm chef begs us to fill out those shitty forms
>forms go right to some bigwig who doesn't know shit
>Dorm chef gets kicked out

Lyme disease is terrifying too. Don't go out in the woods or anywhere there is uncut grass in the states. No matter what the health department says how Lyme disease is rare in your state they are lying. The government is responsible for the epidemic of it through the states and are covering it up with their shitty tests and nondiagnosis. Take hot showers every night. You also need to check your pimples and if you think anything suspicious about them then go and see a doctor right away because its possibly a tick bite.

God dammit. I'm already enough of a hypochondriac as is.

Sounds like pericarditis. It can happen a lot of different ways, shit really sucks.

>clean showers on fireguard like a good little private
>didn't wash hands like a grubby little private
>uh drill sergeant i think i might have pink eye
>3 days in the medhold/quarters/whatever barracks
>deemed a contagious risk
>have to basically be treated like a leper and not allowed to touch things
>eye was better within like 6 hours of getting there, still couldn't leave
>all the other people there were chill at least
>nothing interesting happens for 3 days
I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily try to go to quarters to get out of training. That shit was fucking depressing.

Have you served recently? They drill it into your head in BMT and tech school that you need to go to mental health services -- no repercussions. I was an Airman, not a private.

I wasn't naive enough to think it'd be a good idea in basic, but I was naive enough to think it'd be ok in AIT. Turns out it's only OK in operational/first duty base. Then the leeway is that much greater. It's just a bait and switch.

Also didn't say I had depression. Said I was feeling depressed/a bit down. I had never been diagnosed with depression.

>see all the sgt's running around scared shitless all morning
>they all ask about trainee tyrone
>no one has seen him
>lunch line up
>MSgt Alabama comes out
>"ANYALL SEE TRAINEE TYRONE?!"
>"DIS HEYA TRAINEE US AYYWALL"
>no one has seen him still
>get done with lunch
>not march back to dorm
>fucking waiver rocks
>see a bunch of security forces trucks storm the building
>trainee tyrone had been at jewish services and didn't give his slip to the desk
>trainee tyrone was 1 minute away from getting raped by bored security

are you having a stroke?

>get stuck with escort duty
>fuck no
>gotta pick up a 6 tango
>2 female trainees go to escort another
>MSgt drives van down interstate going at least 110 blasting heavy metal
>arrive at what you would thing a beverly hills estate would look like
>surrounding by civilians crying
>follow MSgt to dark grey room and a rainbow painted on the ceiling
>see trainee slit wrists getting his stuff back
>his boots had the laces removed
>get back to base in one piece
>chow
>escort slit wrists
>he gagged with every forced bite of his food

This one really fucked me over. Being around his was like knowing a jump scare will happen at any moment in a movie, but constant. I never knew who easy it was to distinguish abnormals from normals before then.

>stall 1 didn't have a door
>no one knew where it was
>situated right in front of latrine door
>2 people used it for their shits no matter what

>stall 7 was the jack off stall
>sometimes we could hear grunting all the way across the dorm
>had to take a shit in there once

>daily inspections
>MSgt cindy checks latrines with dorm chef
>a solid shit the size of a water bottle floating in stall 3
>MSgt stared down dorm chef for 5 minutes
>dorm chef finally realizes he should flush it

>trainee Willy had a fucked knee
>he was in medhold at least a week
>started getting dt's from not having dip
>wrote to his girlfriend to smuggle in some copenhagen
>night roll call
>trainee willy gets a package
>we all stare in disbelief
>MSgt makes him open package in front of him
>its a fucking crayola crayon box
>MSgt can't believe it
>we can't either
>he pulls out the inserts the crayons are in
>its an empty crayon box
>shakes his head and looks at trainee willy with disappointment
>trainee willy smiles and says thank you before crutch walking back into line
>get up to dorm
>trainee willy rushes to stall 1
>starts taking shit
>rips open the sharpener section of crayon box
>we all watch in disbelief
>he's holding the sweet brown dip
>while taking a shit

Fucking narc ruined it all and he had to flush it the next night.

>They drill it into your head in BMT and tech school that you need to go to mental health services -- no repercussions
>no repercussions

And you were fucking stupid enough to believe them? Fuck, in that case I have a beach house in Wyoming I'd like to sell you.

A lot of people see mental health in AIT without repercussions. I just happen to be in the middle of a pretty significant MX airmen purge. I had a buddy who got separated after receiving an LoR for not shaving. They were looking for any reason to cut people; I just happened to find out after the fact.
I was a naive 18 year old. It ended up working in my favor because I'm a lot happier and more successful than if I stayed active duty.
I don't think you've actually served a day in your life.

>I had a buddy who got separated after receiving an LoR for not shaving
That's insane. How long ago was this? I can't imagine them dropping maintainers for little shit like that given the current need for them.

This was back in early 2016. AETC cut a ton of MX airmen out of AIT and then the rest of the AF bitched about not having enough maintainers to meet mission demands

I just ELS'd recently. I met some interesting people and here's some of them:

First trainee, enter MedHold with him
>fuckup, multiple comments, LoC, LoR and prev. recycled a week
>somehow made it to the 5th week
>ELS'd for pissing in the shower
>received LoR for above reason
>ironically turned out to be alright at latrine detail

Second trainee, new guy
>fell out 1st or 2nd day
>seemed like a decent person
>turned out he attacked an MTI
>blacked out, broke their nose
>also tried fighting a guy for waking him up
>diagnosed with PTSD
>voluntarily moved to CQH that night

Third trainee, already there
>fell out 6th week, former dorm chief
>was close to graduating originally, recycled from 8th week
>egotistical, but funny guy
>received an LoR for saying some guy's wife wasn't a ten
>"Inciting Violence" or etc.

Fourth trainee, already there
>been there for around 7/8 months
>pulled out of 3rd week
>investigated by OSI for unknown reason
>likely interrogated multiple times
>made acquaitances with some MTIs present
>planned to RTT

>received an LoR for saying some guy's wife wasn't a ten
>"Inciting Violence" or etc.
kek

why'd you get an ELS?

I have bunch of stories, got thrown into medhold briefly during the height of the Iraq war late 2006. My roommate was hit by a IED, messed up his back. No bullshit, I seen it myself, he had a lifetime prescription of percocet's. He was 27 years old and he had to walk with a cane. I would walk him to chow sometimes.

The barracks were filled with drugs nutcases and scammers. One e-4 somehow managed to stay in medhold so long his whole family just lived off base and he openly talked about how he just collects checks and fooled the case manager....for two whole years at that time.

I ELS'd cuz they found out I lied about MEPS stuff - depression history and whatnot.

It's strange, I ran around in the woods constantly as a kid and never got one on me, never even seen one before. I go exploring again as an adult in the same area and find a tick right above my cock later that night. What gives.
>Take hot showers every night.
What is that supposed to do?

how'd they find out?

They went through my records I guess. Some other people from my dorm were in for the same reason.

wash the ticks in the very tiny nymph form away away since they are very hard to spot and hard to feel crawling on you. the ticks don't like the hot so if they are attached to you already they will back out and get washed away.

is this even english

So did you have your depression on record from a prior visit with your doctor and just never mentioned it during MEPS or what? And how did your ELS turn out afterwards (or rather how is it affecting what you're doing now)

Long enough to know you don't tell your superiors you're having mental health problems in the middle of cutbacks, especially so early on.

>I didn't say I had depression, I said I was feeling depressed

Despite saying no to being a retard, you're doing a helluva job proving the contrary.

>No matter what the health department says how Lyme disease is rare in your state they are lying. The government is responsible for the epidemic of it through the states and are covering it up with their shitty tests and nondiagnosis.

Pffftthahahahahhaha.

Asking for he!p is never stupid asshole

Please keep asking for help. It will get better if you do

>Innafghanistan
>We're on the FOB, 82nd is taking our AO because we've had like 20 KIA within two months
>Spend all my time in my chu playing Pokemon on my DS, team leader thinks I must therefore be depressed
>Spc. Snuffy you will accompany me to the chaplain to speak about your depression or I will article 15 your ass
>Yes sarnt roger sarnt
>Go to chaplain
>Team leader makes his case as to why I must be depressed
>Uh, sir, I think I'm actually fine, I just like playing pokemon
>Severe looks from both team leader and chaplain
>He tries to talk to me about god for like twenty minutes
>Thinking about trying to catch that shiny Abra I've been chasing after
>Zone out
>...I believe your soldier will be fine sergeant, just maintain discipline standards. Do either of you have any questions for me?
>No sir!
>Go back to chu, eventually catch that shiny Abra
>Fuck yeah

Feeling depressed isn't the same as having diagnosed depression, retard.

>>wear garbage bag pt uniform, with extra clothes, with additional blankets.
>>finna burn this bitch to death and not get recycled
>>run horrific fever
Fucking based.

>be totally not me
>somewhere in week 3 or 4 I get a particularly bad shin splint
>whatever, nothing I can’t handle, A school will be a cakewalk anyways
>despite doing stretches when I can and when it is lights out it does not go away
>in fact it gets worse
>very, very worse
>painisweaknessleavingthebody.tf2soldier
>try my damndest to hide it but I can only do so much
>surprised I can still march right this shit hurts so bad
>can’t even walk without limping a bit
>running does not fare much better, gets to the point where I spent nearly an entire running session puking my stomach out
>I ain’t feeling so good, chief
>eventually get sent to medical
>got a nasty fracture and some other bs
>eventually wind up in ship 5 not even a week before graduation and was with a dude who didn’t even last 20 seconds in boot and another guy who got dropped from 11b OSUT for the same reason I was getting separated
>count the rest of my military days with a cup of decaf coffee at every chow
Always wear long pants innawoods.
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Believe me, they can and will.