This video is the third entry in the "Connect to Protect" series, in which Soldiers tell their individual stories in struggling with behavioral health challenges, their road to recovery, and methods and best practices to attain and maintain resiliency throughout their lives.
Speaking on request of anonymity, "Maximilian" goes into his personal story about his experiences with abstract reality - one traumatic event after another - ultimately exceeded his threshold for hardship. Thankfully, he prevails through the bleakest episode in his life through the support of his family, friends and members of his military network.
Army Reserve Capt. Oliver Pedraga, the suicide prevention program manager of the Pinellas Park, Florida-based...
