Marine Suicides At Near Record

What comes with Combat PTSD? All that is listed below and more. If they have PTSD, there is substance abuse trying to numb themselves from the pain that remains.

They have relationship problems because of the long list of issues they are suffering from on a daily basis. Speaking with first hand knowledge, it is about as hard as it can be for family members.

Everything in this article are reasons why they lose so much hope that suicide seems to be their only answer. We are not closer to saving their lives because failed programs continue and what works has not been put into practice. Families need to be supported and given the tools to help their veterans until the DOD and the VA catch up.

Marine Suicides At Near Record
The Marines suicide prevention program reported 21 deaths and 107 attempted suicides for the year through July.
By Patch Staff
August 26, 2012

Some 21 Marines committed suicide and 107 attempted suicide this year through July, according to a report released by the Marine and Family Programs Suicide Prevention Program.

The information has prompted a second look at the Corps' Never Leave a Marine Behind suicide prevention training for non-commissioned Marines and officers.

While the number of deaths represent little change in the average monthly rate of suicides from last year, the rate of attempted suicides edged up slightly.

According to an article in the North County Times Sunday, typical calls to a hotline at 1-877-476-7734 or online Skype visits to the website at www.dstressline.com ran 10 to 15 minutes.

The Times article stated that callers talked most often about stress with relationships, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, substance abuse and depression.

Marine suicides have been a source of increasing alarm; prevention efforts to avoid the self-inflicted deaths have been stepped up since the Iraq and Afghanistan wars began taking their tolls.
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