Ignoring easy answers on preventing military suicides

Ignoring easy answers on preventing military suicides
De-Tour Combat PTSD Survivor's Guide
Kathie Costos
July 14, 2013

The more I read about how little has been figured out on reducing suicides tied to military service, the more I get freaked out. Everyone should be by now because if an average person like me figured it out, the leaders are still scratching their heads.

It isn't that I am smarter than they are but more about paying attention than anything else. In 2008 I was hearing from more and more veterans about what used to be called Battlemind that morphed into Comprehensive Soldier Fitness. They said this approach made them feel as if they were mentally weak and PTSD was their fault because they didn't train right to prevent PTSD. The DOD remains clueless.

Last year after working with families after it was too late to prevent suicide, they asked me to put it all together in a book. I agreed to do it even though I knew it would cause a tremendous emotional price on me. Every time I do anything on suicides, including this report, I think of my husband's nephew. One more suicide story no one thinks about. While I helped my husband, I couldn't get his nephew to listen.
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