As military suicides rise, focus shifts to private guns

[sniper7]

Sources, although I missed a part. Number 1 cause of death via injury.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile...n_1909772.html

Enjoy!

Suicide leading cause of death BY INJURY. since 2009 it has been #1 in that category, not leading cause of death.


Yeah, I can see where it would increase. People lose their homes, their families, their jobs, and take their own lives.

from the extremely rich, to the very poor, people will take their own life for god knows what reasons. But that is going to ultimately be their choice, they will get it done no matter what tool it takes.

[SAnd]

I wonder if many people, in the military and out, are reluctant to say anything for fear of losing their civil rights or being tagged as having mental health problems. Having an entry in your medical file could follow you the rest of your life with negative consequences. It's my understanding that some anonymous addiction treatment programs advise their clients not to tell anyone about any help their people seek.

[mephistopheles]

As someone who lost a close family member to suicide I can tell you this, how they get there is irrelevant. The end result is that traumatizing part, gun, rope, car I still would feel the same. If my brother shot himself I wouldn't have gone and melted his and my guns down or blamed the guns for "causing" suicide.

[Irving]

As someone who lost a close family member to suicide I can tell you this, how they get there is irrelevant. The end result is that traumatizing part, gun, rope, car I still would feel the same. If my brother shot himself I wouldn't have gone and melted his and my guns down or blamed the guns for "causing" suicide.

Agreed. And sometimes, people just don't have the time and/or money to help loved ones. Some people cannot be helped.

[mephistopheles]

Agreed. And sometimes, people just don't have the time and/or money to help loved ones. Some people cannot be helped.

I went to a few groups of people who had family die in this way and the story was the same, people start getting better emotionally etc... And then with out warning, it's over. It's hard to help people who you think are just fine. Most people that go through with it just do it, no attempts etc.. History proves banning things just dosent work.

[Irving]

I didn't find out anything until it was too late, but I guess people tried to help in one way or another over years and years and more than one trip to rehab and stuff. Paranoid Schizophrenia + drugs is a tough deal.

[MileHighOutlaw]

Suicide is on a crazy climbing rate with teenagers as well lately. One of my daughters friends took her life last month then two weeks later my daughters best friend took her life as well. My daughter is a emotional wreck and my wife and I are scarred to death that she may be next. I feel bad for everyone that can't seem to find help or at least make the effort to get help.

[Scanker19]

The Mental Health system is a joke at least in the Army. The hurdles that need to be taken to get to someone with a prescribing authority is laughable at best. At the most soldiers can have access to a social worker to talk about it, which may help, maybe not.

Even then they still refer you back to your PA for meds.

They only pretend to care.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Did any of those mental midgets at Puffington Host stop to think that Hollywood's obsession with portraying the darker side of life might have anything to do with the increasing suicide rate? Movies by-and-large used to be uplifting; now even comic book hero movies (X-men, Spider-man, Dark Knight) are depressingly focused on how bad things happen to good people.