Posted on Jun 1, 2016
Are the Veteran Suicide Campaigns Helping or Hurting?
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You hear all the time about the "22" veteran suicides per day that were reported by a survey that has been debated as being misleading as well as inaccurate. Meanwhile, we are stuck with the astigmatism of being unstable because we are combat vets. I feel like devoting more to Soldiers' mental health would help far more than spreading "awareness".
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I too have wondered if the public awareness campaigns about suicide, PTSD, etc. has had the unintended and undesired effect of coloring the public's view of veterans. And to an extent I think it has, but I have no better solutions regarding how to reach SMs and vets who may have such serious issues. Perhaps its a side effect we all have to live with in hopes that those in trouble can be helped.
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The largest majority of suicidal vets are from pre Iraq/Afghanistan, yet the target audience and common belief is that it's all vets from modern wars. I don't think anybody is addressing why this is happening. With the problems that the VA has and previously undiagnosed conditions, maybe the focus should be on finding out why and doing something about that. I've lost several Vereran friends to suicide that weren't at all linked to deployments. 1 was simply because he got out and didn't have the sense of belonging anymore. The millions of dollars spent on teaching us to be resilient is certainly not the answer.
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