Cracking the code: The new frontier in confronting veteran suicide

The primary problem is a diagnosis first made by Socrates centuries ago but not listed in the DSM-5:
Anosognosia--the inability to recognize disabilities caused by even minor TBIs.
Think of it as a permanent intoxication affect. Like trying to get the car keys from someone who is obviously too drunk to drive. But that is easily seen because of the motor dysfunction. When it involves a permanent TBI injury the motor function often recovers because it is worked upon by the patient and his therapists. But the mental function is ignore mostly because friends and family who tell the physician the patient "is not right" are ignored. So standing around grave side, as I've heard so many times in my 78 years, close family members will say, "Well you know he/she was never right after": a kick in the head by a horse, coming back from war, that car accident, etc.

For the individual, it feels like a demon sabatoging everything you try to do and the only way to get rid of the hopelessness of it is to take that finale exit. Been there and tried that. Saved by the 1995 May Discover Magazine Article, "The Brain That Misplaced Its Body." Hope some physicians read this and get suicidal ideation therapy corrected. You can't know what that "adjustment disorder" is until it is identified and worked upon like recovering a muscle or adjusting to an unrecoverable muscle.