It's quite easy to pick yourself up on the bottom field or to swim out of the regain tank. It is another thing altogether to pick up a phone or to ask for help when you feel that you can no longer swim on your own. Thank you for your service Steve but more importantly, thank you for sharing your struggle, it means that we are never alone and that help is available. There is still way too much stigma attached to PTSD in the forces, this has to change.