Veterans Supporting Veterans

Veteran Anxiety & Depression Support

Anxiety and depression can affect everyday life, relationships, sleep, motivation and the ability to feel connected. Veterans deserve practical tools, meaningful connection and resources they can reach when difficult moments show up.

Understanding the Challenge

Anxiety and Depression Can Look Different for Every Veteran

Veterans can experience anxiety and depression for many different reasons. Military experiences, difficult transitions, trauma, isolation, relationship challenges, physical health concerns and everyday life stress can all affect emotional well-being.

Anxiety may involve persistent worry, feeling tense or on edge, difficulty concentrating, trouble sleeping or feeling overwhelmed by situations that once seemed manageable.

Depression can involve persistent sadness, loss of interest, low motivation, changes in sleep or appetite, difficulty concentrating, withdrawal from other people or feeling disconnected from things that once mattered.

These experiences can overlap, and they can also occur alongside PTSD or other mental-health concerns.

Reveille's role is educational and supportive. The Reveille Foundation does not diagnose anxiety, depression, PTSD or other conditions. Our goal is to help veterans keep educational tools, resources and connections within reach while encouraging appropriate professional care when it is needed.

Practical Tools

Small Tools Can Still Have a Place in the Bigger Picture

There is no single technique that solves anxiety or depression. Professional treatment, medical care, supportive relationships and healthy routines can all be parts of a larger support system.

Educational coping skills can provide additional tools veterans can practice and revisit between appointments, after treatment programs or during stressful moments.

Grounding

Grounding techniques redirect attention toward the present environment and immediate physical surroundings. They can provide a structured activity when thoughts or emotions feel overwhelming.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness involves deliberately noticing what is happening in the present moment, including thoughts, emotions and physical sensations.

Recognizing Thoughts

Educational CBT concepts can help people notice connections between thoughts, emotions and behaviors and recognize patterns that may be worth discussing with a professional.

Emotional Regulation

Emotional-regulation skills can help people identify emotions, recognize changes in intensity and consider healthy ways of responding to difficult feelings.

Daily Check-Ins

Checking in with mood, anxiety, stress, sleep and other experiences can make changes and patterns easier to recognize over time.

Connection

Isolation can make difficult periods even harder. Trusted friends, family, fellow veterans, peer-support communities and professional providers can all become parts of a veteran's support network.

Life After Treatment

The Appointment Ends. Life Keeps Moving.

Professional treatment can provide veterans with important knowledge, skills and support. But appointments end. Programs eventually finish. Veterans return home.

That's where another challenge can begin.

The skills learned during treatment may be hardest to remember at exactly the moment they are needed most. A difficult night, an argument, poor sleep, isolation or a sudden wave of anxiety doesn't wait for the next scheduled appointment.

That gap is one of the reasons the Reveille Foundation is developing the Reveille app.

The Reveille App

Reveille is being developed as a veteran-focused mobile application designed to make educational mental-health tools and resources easier to reach.

Planned features include educational material based on skills veterans may encounter through approaches such as DBT, CBT and CPT, along with daily check-ins, resources and greater opportunities for veteran connection.

Reveille is not intended to replace therapy or medical care. It is intended to help veterans keep useful tools closer when they leave the treatment room and return to everyday life.

Learn About the Reveille App Veteran Mental Health Resources

PTSD and Trauma

Anxiety and depression can sometimes occur alongside post-traumatic stress. Veterans looking specifically for information about trauma and PTSD can visit our dedicated PTSD support resource.

PTSD Support for Veterans
Trusted Mental Health Resources

Additional Anxiety & Depression Support

Veterans looking for additional information about anxiety, depression and mental-health treatment can explore official resources from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

VA Mental Health

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides information about mental-health conditions, treatment options and resources available to veterans and their families.

Visit VA Mental Health Veterans Crisis Line
Immediate Support

If You Need Help Right Now

Some moments require immediate human support.

Dial 988, then Press 1

Veterans can also text 838255.

The Veterans Crisis Line provides free, confidential crisis support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to Veterans and their loved ones.

Veterans Crisis Line
Important: The Reveille Foundation provides educational and supportive resources. Information provided by Reveille is not medical advice. Reveille does not diagnose anxiety, depression, PTSD or other medical or mental-health conditions and is not a substitute for professional medical care, mental-health treatment or emergency services. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing an emergency, call 911.