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Why civilian life feels overwhelming after military structure

I have been out for three years and I still wake up every morning expecting formation and then remember I am supposed to figure out what to do with my day all by myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The absence of external structure reveals the hidden dependency on institutional meaning-making that military life provided.

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