What does a Command Referral to Mental Health do to your military career?

Question

My Cain of Command told me they are referraling me to Mental Health?

Answer 1

Mentally Unfit, Forced To Fight
http://www.rense.com/general76/unfit.htm

The U.S. military is sending troops with serious psychological problems into Iraq and is keeping soldiers in combat even after superiors have been alerted to suicide warnings and other signs of mental illness, a Courant investigation has found.

George W. Bush's Mental Problems
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HAM407A.html

Related article: at http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CAS407A.html

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression, and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.”

The mentally psycho "decider" forces poison toxins into troops who are already unstable.

See:
Comprehensive 12-part Critique of Psychiatry
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/

Does Mental Illness Exist?
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/exist.htm

Schizophrenia: A Nonexistent Disease
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/schizoph.htm

The Myth of Biological Depression
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/depressi.htm

Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery?
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/drugs.htm

Psychiatry's Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment - A Crime Against Humanity
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/ect.htm

The Brain Butchery Called Psychosurgery
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/psychosu.htm

The Case Against Psychotherapy
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/psychoth.htm

Unjustified Psychiatric Commitment in the USA
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/unjustif.htm

Is Involuntary Commitment for Mental Illness a Violation of Substantive Due Process?
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/due-proc.htm

Why Psychiatry Should Be Abolished as a Medical Specialty
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/abolish.htm

Suicide: A Civil Right
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/suicide.htm

Psychiatric Stigma Follows You Everywhere You Go for the Rest of Your Life
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/stigma.htm

Why Psychiatric Drugs are Always Bad - by Douglas C. Smith, M.D.
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/drsmith1.htm

On Ritalin and "Hyperactivity Disorder" - Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/ritalin.htm

How Drug Company Money Has Corrupted Psychiatry - Loren R. Mosher, M.D.
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/mosher.loren.1.htm

Unethical Psychiatrists Misrepresent What is Known About Schizophrenia - by Al Siebert, Ph.D.
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/siebert.htm

Only You Can Cure Yourself - Ann Lawson
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/lawson.htm

Why Outpatient Commitment Laws Change (Almost) Nothing - by Douglas A. Smith
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/kendra-c.htm

Why Mental Patients Should Have the Same Constitutional Rights as Criminals - and Why Involuntary Commitment for "Dangerousness" is Wrong
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/donaldsonbriefexcerpt.htm

25 Good Reasons Why Psychiatry Must Be Abolished - by Don Weitz of Toronto, Ontario
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/25reason.htm

Notes on Psychiatric Fascism by Don Weitz of Toronto, Ontario
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/weitz2.htm

The Non-Violence Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi Applied to Psychiatry
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/gandhi.htm

A Retort to President Bush on Mental Health
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/bushap02.htm

Mental Health Parity: A Debate - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone and Antipsychiatry Coalition webmaster Douglas A. Smith debate whether Congress (or state governments) should have laws forcing health insurance companies to pay for psychiatric treatment
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/wellstone.htm

Do you have a right to jury trial in psychiatric commitment in your state? - a compendium of psychiatric commitment laws in the USA's 50 states and capitol (District of Columbia)
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/jury.htm

Lawyers - a list of lawyers who have successfully opposed psychiatric oppression
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/lawyers.htm

Mental Health Professionals - a list of psychiatrists, psychologists, and a neurologist who oppose involuntary psychiatric "treatment"
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/mhp.htm

Answer 2

Command Referral to Mental Health pretty much means that your Chain of Command does not believe that you are stable enough to do your job. It depends on what the psychologists will Say. Depending on if you've been to Iraq and all. More than likely they will diagnosed you with PTSD, post trauma stress disorder. Take the medication they prescribe ( or like myself, don't and dump it into the trash and say you did ) and get put to desk duty, if they believe that you are still qualified, you will be put back into active duty, and if not they'll discharge you honorably and you get a citation for counseling.

Answer 3

I am a navy wife and have my Masters in Social Work and work as a Crisis Counselor. It may take some extra time to finish your degree if you PCS while you are in the middle of school but it is doable. I thankfully only had 5 months left of graduate school when my husband enlisted. So by the time he got his first PCS orders I was done with school. Since I have my bachelors in social work it only took me three years part time to get my masters. You could easily completed a full time counseling masters program in 2 years. To be a psychologist you are really looking at having to complete your masters then go for a PhD or PsyD or get into a combined program which can take about 5 years. It really depends on your preference. Moving has made is difficult for me to obtain my supervision towards my LCSW because in Ohio independently licensed social workers didn't charge you for supervision but in Virginia they do and it is not something we can afford at this time. However, after searching for about 6 months I received the job I have now in emergency mental health and I hope to start my supervision soon. I am actually putting in an officers packet for the navy for their new social work internship program. You would have to take each state on a case by case basis but many states have very similar licensing laws once you receive your masters degree (at least for counselors and social workers-not sure about psychologists)

Answer 4

you have not necessarily begun the step to becoming a civilian they will do various psych test to see what kind of mental health you may have if it is PTSD then yes you may be discharged if it is just depression and they can see that you are maintaining it through ,medication then they may not discharge you. If they can see that maybe it is a short term thing they may refer you to a mental health worker it all depends on what the outcome of your psych test is they will see if you will be able to cope in stressful dituations such as going into combat without breaking down so that you are a danger to yourself and the other soldiers good luck hun

Answer 5

If you truly need mental health services, it may be what saves it.

And what is the deal with people stating that their chain of command did so and so? Doubtful. Did the Commander do it? Deputy Commander? First Sergeant? Head orderly room weenie? Who? Surely it wasn't every person in the entire chain of command.

Answer 6

It can't help it that much. Military fair play doesn't work quite the same as conditions in civilian life. Superior officers do have a lot of control over their subordinates, and it's not as though you can just quit if you're not happy with the treatment !

Answer 7

It really depends on the outcome of the referral.

Answer 8

It would have finished mine. I had a top secret clearance.

Answer 9

YOU HAVE JUST BEGUN THE INITIALS STEPS TO BECOME A CIVILIAN.