America's Most Depressed City | ENDEVR Documentary

Beer, crack, ice anything is cheaper than therapy. Insurance should have zero copay on therapy & stop demanding therapists provide a diagnosis in first visit. Stop limiting the amount of visits. The entire American healthcare system is a complete failure

Imagine how them dudes from vietnam felt. Their war seemed even more pointless, harder drugs, more civilians killed, had drafts, and they came home to a country that foresake them with heroin problems

Worst thing is when people know that you're depressed and drained and they still try to f*** with you

This documentary is filled with the reasons i left the Army immediately after my contact was over. I almost didnt survive, but now im thriving.

I just recently moved back to Killeen after getting out in 2011. I was deployed 3xs and honestly I was mentally exhausted. When I got out I was a wreck, I started drinking more heavily everyday. I didn’t know what I wanted out of life since I was 18 I put the Army needs over mines. I was all over the place. Luckily I had an honorable discharge and I used my GI bill to survive on. I’ve been in and out of jail. Had multiple domestic issues because of my anger and emotional numbness. During COVID was the most depressing time of my life and I was really contemplating suicide but I thought about my kids and I realized they would suffer much more than I ever did alive. One thing that pulled me out of depression was WORKING OUT and having A JOB! I see too many guys get out and stay at home drinking, when in reality it’s only making things worse because you’re not being productive. Journaling also helps if you don’t feel comfortable talking to anyone else. Stay active! Sitting around only makes things worse, that’s when the anxiety sets in and you drink to eliminate it, but it only comes back stronger.

My ex was messed up after deployment. I tried so many times to enroll him in programs and he wouldn’t do it. He was never the same, and he had it “good” and rarely had to go out of the air base, not like other people did. He wasn’t on the frontline but still saw some bad things. He saw how the drones went off with explosives and somebody stateside would take over controls once off the ground. It would come back, with no explosives. He talked about the kindness of the locals. How it saddened him that we killed people, and not even he knew why or who or where… he told me we left weapons there and that it didn’t feel like we were there for self defense purposes. He saw somebody get blown up by a mortar. God knows what he couldn’t tell me. He did have medical help available, but the government makes it hard to access. The GI bill? A lie. They try their hardest to not cover anything. They don’t care. They ruin lives. They don’t own up to their end of it, they don’t do what they say. I left him. I was scared he was going to hurt me. He was scared he’d hurt me, and he talked about how he wanted to hurt me. I hope he’s doing better and has found peace. I couldn’t help him. It was something I couldn’t fix. Our government is evil.

It makes me so incredibly sad to know all these men are fighting useless wars that our government keeps starting for their own agenda. God bless our brave soldiers ❤️

As a veteran, the government doesn't care about us or the problems we face on a day-to-basis. Most of us suffer some form of ptsd with no proper channels for help like we should have.

As a person who experiences depression, your opening sequence was top notch. thank you.

As somebody who has been there let me offer insight: The people who live there don't want to live there, they were brought there by circumstance. Very few of them plan to stay long-term, making community non-existent. A large portion of the population is the army dropouts/rejects. This fuels the drug & alcohol crisis, they move down to Austin homeless and get lost or fall into a poverty trap in HH/Kileen/Fort Hood The high APR sports car (22-28%) is a joking right of passage for young male troops. Predatory.

11 Year US Air Force Veteran here... You know why I got out back in 08? I realized these are BANKERS' WARS.

My older brother has a Purple Heart after 3 tours as a marine. Called him after this. Thank y’all.

Here in Norway veterans get a really good pension, most get over $3000 a month and low taxes, especially if they served abroad such as Afghanistan. If they can't work because of mental health issue or any other health issues, they get help for the rest of their lives.

My brother just passed away after serving in the Marines. Decided to become homeless after the military, due to a multitude of issues. Served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the Marines did not want to help him after his service. I changed my life to help him and others who simply needed someone to LISTEN to them without judgement. So many veterans I've met have decided to become homeless after service. We all need to listen and build genuine perspectives, so we can all help each other heal. Love Always!

"Kicking doors, everyone scared, its fun"....A psycho is born.

Lesson from this documentary if you do not want to fight in unjustified wars think before joining the military

I was in the US Army 48 years ago. The soldiers in the video are in infantry type units. Recruiting young men into infantry you're going to get the most aggressive, confident, risk taking young men who think they're indestructible that America has. Only 1% of Americans serve, about 2% of males. And infantry is less than 20% of the Army so you're talking about 0.4% of males. Then you put them all together, teach them to kill and instill even more confidence and skills and gee whiz guess what you get? Extreme change in their life, almost no access to females, plenty of booze, hard work load with a high likelihood of being killed or crippled for life and question should be why soldiers aren't more depressed. Amazes me most Americans have no concept of what it's like to serve. Like this video shocked soldiers are offing themselves. Soldiers understand why. It's like "Duh".

The soldiers who were interviewed were forthcoming, brave and articulate. The brains quote in particular will stick with me. What I don't understand is that the military won't, or can't, work with soldiers post-combat, because returning to society is just as important as preparing for warfare. These young people have been discarded. It is tragic, and it must be addressed.

This deserves an award. Every documentary award there is.

I'm in Canada and it isn't much different here. I've lost most of my family members to the ravages of PTSD and the criminal level of neglect the military shows to it's veterans. The war machine needs to end.