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In a few short sentences please provide me with your thoughts on the following paragraph. Stigma plays a huge role in whether military members seek mental health-care. While there are avenues to use that say that they will not contact chain of command, if a problem is deemed excessive - they will contact the command. This will keep many members and their spouses from contacting health professionals. For most - this is their only source of income, and if it is found that they are broken they are afraid of losing their job. The Army is trying to help those who redeploy by their reintegration training. Most men are there in body only. They know how to fill out questionnaires and what to say to the medics to finish the day. Problems really start cropping up by the 6 month mark. By then, everyone that has been downrange with them has moved on, and the military member tries to fix it themselves. Unfortunately, sometimes this ends in violence and death. I truly believe that educating society is the key to decreasing this stigma. Public Service Announcements (PSA's) are a thing of the past, except for in Germany. Bring these back to help educate those who watch TV - which is the majority of the population. Only after education can come acceptance