What are the common challenges that every veteran face while returning home? Let’s break this;
Other than the military, almost all the professions have something in common – they are civilians. They don’t stick by strict rules and regulations, and much other stuff. When a military personnel leaves his services and becomes a veteran, he faces a lot of difficulties while adjusting to civilian life. Here are the few common challenges faced by them.
Common Challenges Veterans Face When Returning Home
Employment Problems:
A military man done with his services, now what will be his plans of making a living? That’s the major issue. Though VA offers a lot of payments like pensions, disability compensation, and educational scholarships, they are often not enough to become financially independent and survive in the world of inflation.
Difficulty Adjusting With Civilians:
Even when veterans get hired by employers, they face a lot of problems in adjusting to civilians. They had followed different sets of rules and regulations for a certain part of their lives and they won’t adjust to civilians easily. Sometimes when a veteran has less education, he is often bullied by civilians.
Mental Disorders:
Suffering from trauma or facing difficulties and challenges like the death of a comrade, often end up messing with the veterans’ mental health. Veterans are more susceptible to diseases like PTSD, TBI, depression, and anxiety as compared to other people. They often get insomnia and lack proper diet and nutrition leading to complete deterioration of their mental health.
Physical Disabilities:
While fighting bravely on the battlefield, veterans are more at risk of losing their limbs – or we can say amputations. Moreover, people of war are exposed to various hazardous chemicals that negatively affect their health. These can lead to various respiratory issues and severe medical conditions like cancer.
Many veterans also suffer blindness and deafness. Many get spine and back issues as well. Most of the physical disabilities are serious enough to make the veterans bedridden.
Inability to Determine the Purpose of Remaining Life:
Let’s understand this thing from the military point of view. When a person has a passion to get admitted to the army and is working day and night by his heart, he has a purpose, a goal, and a destination.
But what happens after a military person has gone through his journey and reached his destination? He gets discharged honorably. Life shifts from full-of-passion to no-passion mode. They often overthink and question themselves about the purpose of their lives.
Homelessness:
A combination of a few conditions above, like unemployment, unstable mental health, and no purpose in life compel many veterans to start using drugs. Due to becoming drug-dependent and an alcoholic, many veterans don’t care for the assets they have including their home and become homeless. But that’s not the only reason, many veterans face other issues and become homeless.
Let’s Love Veterans:
Though VA and many other associations are working to help veterans settle in their lives, that’s not enough. We, civilians need to show them the love most. They did not care for their lives without expecting anything in the return. FamilyLoves.com, with its amazing veteran products, gives you chances to connect with veterans.
