ABSTRACT
Many times the first true appearance of problems from these was noted in comments or questions by schoolchildren to teachers and parents. Mental health care was sought if the counselor or therapist was a local-born person who came back to practice. A mental health care provider not from the local community would not be trusted and would be used only reluctantly. Simply explained, family mythologies and traumas, personal successes and failures, personal traumas, relationships to the community, as well as past and present work relationships and attachments to the organization and the formal building(s) where work is done. All of these shape the current physical and mental state of that individual. Lieutenant Commander Dave Davis agreed to send him back to the squadron office in Virginia to be off the ship and for further mental health evaluation. The sailor was in a calmer frame of mind as he flew out the next day.
