It hopes new bonds can be forged with ex-forces personnel who have lost their “ military family ” and may also have become cut off from their friends and relatives.... The same is true of 40 percent of non-veterans. Sarah Jones, Help for Heroes head of psychological wellbeing, said ex-military personnel can lose their identity, social life and comrades after leaving service, then spiral further downward remaining shut up at home.... I felt awful, really low, as I missed my family down in Devon