Feared Increase in Suicides Among Troops After Afghanistan Exit Hasn't Materialized —...

COL (Join to see) "As the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and seized Kabul in August, anguished U.S. veterans reached out to the Department of Veterans Affairs' crisis hotline, sending double the number of texts and 40% more chat messages than had been received during the same period a year earlier.

Concern ran high that the stress of watching the blitz would result in a rise in suicides among Afghanstan veterans who lost friends or whose lives were forever altered by their military service.

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But early data from that time frame on suicides indicates those fears may not have come to pass. In fact, incidents of suicide appear to have fallen."...

Good article and I hope the numbers continue to decrease...one is too many of our brothers and sisters taking their own lives. I think it is in part to vets not being mad at themselves but mad as hell at o our country now. They have rechanneled that anger and that in itself isn't probably a good thing. I would be cautious of the numbers though, they are still early.

I have never experienced something as painful as PTSD. I would not wish it upon anyone.