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Veteran Suicide: Are We Losing The Battle?

ridingtohellinahandbasket:

This is Memorial Day, and I’ve chosen to honor them and their memory by making readers aware of an issue that is very close to my heart.  This is a drum I’m going to keep beating until the number of veteran suicides per capita is exactly the same as the rest of the population.  From the linked article:

Military suicides have increased since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Center for a New American Security Suicide report. In the fiscal year 2009 alone, 1,868 veterans of these wars have made suicide attempts, according to armytimes.com.

A veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes, a fact the study attributes to the VA.

These staggering figures underscore the need for the VA to develop more mental-health programs and an accurate system for recording the number of veterans and service members who take their lives.

Here’s another fact about veteran suicide:

Veterans are more than twice as likely as non-veterans to commit suicide and the “Katz Suicide Study,” dated February 21, 2008, found that suicide rates among veterans are approximately 3 times higher than in the general population.

SOURCE: http://www.veteransnewsroom.com/files/press/VETERANS-Fact-Sheet-Veterans.pdf

If you know of a veteran in crisis, please encourage him to dial the National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-TALK and press 1 to speak to a counselor, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  If you must, call the number *yourself* to talk to a counselor.

To learn more about the Veteran’s Crisis Line: http://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

Our veterans are our best and our brightest, and this is a battle we are losing.

  1. agora1970 reblogged this from ridingtohellinahandbasket and added:
    we also handle a ton of veteran calls. I hope you can consider us also… but we do answer the national lines.
  2. roricomics reblogged this from ridingtohellinahandbasket
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