I can't really comment on the improvement. Once again, I do not have a family perspective. However, through my work, I realized at some point that there was so much isolation and guilt involved. Families don't know what is going on or what is happening to the family unit. Many wives feel guilty. They wonder whether they are to blame for the problem and feel that their husband no longer loves them. Since all those dynamics do not stem from a specific incident on a given date that resulted in an obvious physical injury—such as the loss of a leg—they erode the family unit.
Military wives are very often isolated; they feel guilty and ashamed. Once they acknowledge the problem, they need to be given support. That's why I am wondering if anything could be done to improve services for families. Currently, spouses cannot seek help from on-base clinics. They have to wait in the mental health system's queue. The government needs to determine whether those families have deserved to be given priority. That's the first question.
The second question is knowing what kind of mental health care families receive on the civilian side. I don't think that the civilian health care system was designed to deal with those kinds of dynamics or that it's strong enough for that task.
In a perfect world, those families would be provided with services on base and not in the civilian world.