[ It's okay Max, he doesn't know how to help either. He doesn't know how to get help, or even show enough weakness or damage half the time to alert other people to the fact that he even needs it. Nothing beyond the obvious, anyway.
The avoidance in his posture and fidgeting doesn't really lessen at all. He doesn't seem as though he feels any better for sharing that - which makes sense, because now there's a vulnerability that didn't seem as present before, but this is half the reason he hasn't shared any of this before. He expects immediate results, or something along those lines. The moment there's anything worse, and this feels worse, sort of, he hasn't completely decided yet, he cuts and runs again. ] Reneg'd on the debriefs, passed on the psych evals - those have always come back funny anyway. Lots of people said 'if you ever need to', but no one actually wants to hear about it, and I don't want to talk about it. [ Didn't then when it was fresh; doesn't now that it's had time to fester. And besides, bringing it up now, apparently at random, well that just indicates how much it bothers you, doesn't it? ]
well thank you
The avoidance in his posture and fidgeting doesn't really lessen at all. He doesn't seem as though he feels any better for sharing that - which makes sense, because now there's a vulnerability that didn't seem as present before, but this is half the reason he hasn't shared any of this before. He expects immediate results, or something along those lines. The moment there's anything worse, and this feels worse, sort of, he hasn't completely decided yet, he cuts and runs again. ] Reneg'd on the debriefs, passed on the psych evals - those have always come back funny anyway. Lots of people said 'if you ever need to', but no one actually wants to hear about it, and I don't want to talk about it. [ Didn't then when it was fresh; doesn't now that it's had time to fester. And besides, bringing it up now, apparently at random, well that just indicates how much it bothers you, doesn't it? ]