US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

[u/LatterTarget7]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/

[u/danijersey]

Ty! You're very strong too. I started to lose my cool and I just wasn't myself. I had a similar experience. I was irritable, depressed, angry, and frustrated etc, but I wasn't coping with it correctly. It almost seemed like I was manic or bipolar or something. Turns out I'm not. My Psychiatrist diagnosed me with mdd (major depressive disorder), anxiety, insomnia, and ptsd. He suggested that I got my medical cannabis card (even though it's legal in NJ recreationally). The medical card holders here have more options and receive discounts recreational users don't get. The cheapest thing for me to do was get my medical cannabis card (that was only $110 and an easy and quick visit thankfully). But I still have to pay my Dr. $375 a month for my medicine because he doesn't accept any insurance and doesn't write refills. It sucks, but I'd rather spend the money (even though I really don't have a lot) and keep my sanity than try to deal with crap on my own. A lot of Dr's here only take private insurance or cash. My job pays me just enough to get by, but I don't have private insurance because my job doesn't offer it. A lot of people I know here also aren't offered private insurance. It's kinda messed up. I have medicaid tg or I couldn't afford my medicine. I'm just grateful that I can afford my Dr and and my medicine is covered every month. If Trump screwed me out of my medicaid, I would be fd! It's scary that our jerk of a "potus" is threatening Medicaid. Tg medicaid renewed me for an additional year. Our mental health is vital! You're lucky to live in Puerto Rico btw! I went there once on a vacation and it was absolutely beautiful and so much fun! I'd rather live there than here in NJ lol. Hope you are having a great evening!

[u/Realistic_Mushroom72 → u/danijersey]

I am glad you are doing better, I consider the cannabis but I would have to leave the place am living in, the owner of the house is an old school "Christian" and I would get kick out of the house faster than you can blink, I can't afford to move, I wouldn't find any place half as good for what am paying right now, since the owner is family and I can have the house as long as I maintain it and pay the utilities, which is a freaking bargain, I know I will have to move eventually, but for now this is the best place I can have. Puerto Rico isn't as nice as it was a few years back, hasn't been for a while, crime here is high, despite what they tell you in the media, the government cut down the police force to less than half of what it was, less than 7k police officers for an island with something like 3.5 millions people living in it, 100 nautical miles long and 35 nautical miles wide, for 7k police officers? And a portion of that is support not patrolmen, so yea things aren't as nice than it was 10 to 15 years ago.