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I can’t find much about it on the Internet or other people’s experience.

Is what I experienced normal military sexual harassment?

If you had a third-party lower enlisted soldier, get you drunk and repeatedly bring you to a higher ranking soldier for (hangout) sex. So that the third-party could get favorable treatment. Is that normal sexual harassment. There was only one time a sexual act happened. After that repeated attempts and pressure led to retaliation and my records being forged just so I could PCS once I confronted it. I never made a detailed report and it happened 10 years ago.

I heard once the high ranking individual PCSed he continued the behavior at another base with a similar 3rd party catalyst. During this time he became the program coordinator or somthing for SHARP.

I’m a disabled veteran, formerly military police, and I’ve worked in both the public and federal sectors. I feel embarrassed even sharing this, but about eight months postpartum, while dealing with multiple stressors at once, I experienced my first psychotic episode.

At the time, I was postpartum, extremely isolated and under significant stress, using AI obsessively, and taking nine prescribed medications for legitimate health issues (not recreationally or to get high). My treatment team is monitoring me for a year to see whether I may eventually come off medication, and thankfully I’m fairly stable right now.

What’s hard is that, even in the middle of unraveling, I had enough insight to drive myself four hours to the hospital because I knew something was very wrong. I was experiencing intense paranoia and worsening PTSD symptoms, though I didn’t realize I was entering psychosis. I was placed on a 5150 shortly after arriving.

It was terrifying. I genuinely believed the world was ending and developed religious command delusions. While hospitalized, I lashed out at another resident during that state and was restrained by police—something I carry a lot of shame about.

I’ve tried to make sense of it by reminding myself that people can experience psychosis under extraordinary circumstances, including medication interactions, postpartum changes, trauma, and stress. I don’t believe I have a primary psychotic disorder, though I do have family members who have experienced psychotic breaks, which adds to my fear.

I’m trying to get into therapy as soon as possible and am currently on a waitlist through the VA, though continuity of care has been really difficult.

The biggest thing I’m struggling with now is intense death anxiety since the episode. I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced that after psychosis, and if therapy and time helped it improve.