Majority Of Veteran Suicides Are 50 And Older And We Don’t Know Why

I've continued, since 1999, in trying to get this monkey off my back. Yes I still think about it, but it may surprise you why I think about it. I'm tired of fighting my demons all of the time. I'm tired of taking 14 to 15 pills day after day, and night after night. They help me or I would already be dead, but I'm sick of the PTSD, the label of being unemployable, and the dreams I have more and more often as I get older. I just turned 71 and I can feel my depression slowly becoming worse. It's probably age accompanied by depression. I don't know why the ages are 60 and over. I just know how I feel a lot of the time. I'll go see my mental health Doctor, (I'm tired of that tag too), and talk to her, and see what she says. It'll probably be changing my meds again, as that is about all they can do. We'll see.

These are deeply disturbing statistics, especially for the Vietnam cohort.
On July 7, the Veterans Health Administration released new data about veterans’ suicides, based upon examination of over 55 million veteran records from 1979 to 2014 from every state in the nation and U.S. territories. While much of the buzz around veteran suicide has focused on veterans emerging out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this new report showed that 65% of all veterans who died from suicide in 2014 were 50 years of age or older. In fact, 45% of veteran suicides in 2014 were aged 60 and older.