Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse , an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline “‘We Need to Terminate Treatment’: VA Mental Health Providers Say They Are Under Pressure to Limit Care.” Subscribe to their newsletter .

It was a Friday last November when Robert H. got the news: He would no longer be able to see his VA therapist.

After nearly two decades as a Marine and military contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, he had been working through PTSD with the same VA psychologist for 10 years after a suicide attempt.

“That one hour a month of emptying that five-gallon bucket of 10 gallons of shit was just heaven-sent,” said the 49-year-old veteran who shared his story and records from his

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