Is it possible to put an end to PTSD Suicides Once and for all?

We may have better luck if we can get over the fact that reading power point slides about suicide once a year is not the way to fix the issue.

I don't think it is possible to end PTSD suicides all together, but I do think we can greatly decrease the numbers if we are not afraid to talk about it and educate more people about PTSD. There are to many stigmas associated with PTSD and our President has started to make it less likely that some will come forward by putting mental health issues such as PTSD as a possible way to loose rights to own or posses a firearm.

Gunny, not in "my lifetime" too many triggers to overcome. However, with a truthful dialogue and more understanding as to what PTSD is and how it affects the mind. Individuals that have not been placed in a situation that requires constant alertness, ability to kill another human being, ability to watch your friend be killed, see, feel your friend scream with blood pouring out, not sleeping for days. Once it's been imprinted, and you think about it on a daily basis, not because you want to, it just "seeps" into your thoughts, and it's like you're right there again, it's in your dreams, you cry at the drop of a pin, that's just PTSD. Anger issues, anxiety, paranoia, OCD, etc..
As a friend of mine tells me, "baby steps", good advice, however suicide usually IS baby steps, then the climax.
We have a lot of work to do.
Maybe not in my lifetime, but definitely in the next generation. De Oppresso Liber!