mTBI, PTSD and Stress (Catch All)

[ganulv]

[Somers] refers to twenty-two military suicides daily. I tried to identify a thread on PTSD and suicide, but my search failed, so dropped in here.

I looked around the Web for a few minutes and came upon the following from a 2011 report:

[T]he VA estimates that a veteran dies by suicide every 80 minutes.*

That is eighteen veteran suicides daily, so a bit lower than Mr. Somers’s figure, but still, for perspective:

[A]lthough only 1% percent of Americans have served in the military, former service members represent 20% percent of suicides in the United States.†

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* Harrell, Margaret C., and Nancy Berglass. Losing the battle: the challenge of military suicide. Policy brief. Center for a New American Security, October 2011: p. 1.
† ibid.