Posted on Jul 2, 2022
America's military and veterans with PTSD have a fighting chance to heal
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"They don't want to be labeled anything that makes them sound sick, like they can't go back into the field, or weak, like they couldn't kick the enemy's a-- when they need to," she writes.
"Semantics do matter … especially in a world where you have to have a strong ego just as much as a strong body."
"Semantics do matter … especially in a world where you have to have a strong ego just as much as a strong body."
America's military and veterans with PTSD have a fighting chance to heal
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Semantics DO matter and no veteran wants to seem weak or be labeled as such, let alone give any non-prior service civilian excuses to treat them differently.
Yet when a veteran has a "label" it is somehow worse than some punk group of kids through a temper-tantum and burning down businesses or shooting up our streets because they are "Wanna-Be's". These punks could NEVER do what our brave men and women do because, and they are often treated with as an invalid vs as a human being who needs people to listen and NOT judge!!!
But it is not just active component (AD, NG, Res) members and veterans (i.e., prior service or retirees) who are at risk of suicide, it is also military spouses and dependents. In the attached graphic data is available from 2017 to 2019 for spouses and dependents suicides (counts) and veteran data for 2020 and 2021 have not yet be released for those actual years.
Bottomline the graphic was compiled from a host of resources to make the point that a lot of veterans are dying by suicide, yet we have to consider every aspect the active components, veterans (including retirees) and those spouses and dependents who support them.
We have to look at the whole picture and change begins in each community!!!
Just saying................
Yet when a veteran has a "label" it is somehow worse than some punk group of kids through a temper-tantum and burning down businesses or shooting up our streets because they are "Wanna-Be's". These punks could NEVER do what our brave men and women do because, and they are often treated with as an invalid vs as a human being who needs people to listen and NOT judge!!!
But it is not just active component (AD, NG, Res) members and veterans (i.e., prior service or retirees) who are at risk of suicide, it is also military spouses and dependents. In the attached graphic data is available from 2017 to 2019 for spouses and dependents suicides (counts) and veteran data for 2020 and 2021 have not yet be released for those actual years.
Bottomline the graphic was compiled from a host of resources to make the point that a lot of veterans are dying by suicide, yet we have to consider every aspect the active components, veterans (including retirees) and those spouses and dependents who support them.
We have to look at the whole picture and change begins in each community!!!
Just saying................
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All very good points. I was single when I served RA and got activated from the AR. I don't know how people stay married in service. I don't believe my wife would be able to take all the hard time being away from the family. It takes a special kind of person. We need to do our best for all of them.
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