Murder-suicide underscores need for PTSD awareness, funding

The biggest point being missed here is that after all these years of claims by the DOD they are "addressing" PTSD and suicides, every news report exposes how little any of it is working.

EDITORIAL: Murder-suicide underscores need for PTSD awareness, funding
By Express-Times opinion staff
August 02, 2013

It is strange, to say the least, to express sympathy for a person who took the life of another before taking his own. But that’s one of the starting points to try to understand the tragic turnaround in the life of Afghanistan war veteran Robert Kislow III, who shot and killed the mother of his fiancee in his Moore Township home Monday, then killed himself.

First there is the shock of the tragedy itself. Two lives gone. Kislow’s fiancee, Amanda Snyder, witnessed the shootings, according to police, and will have to go on without her partner and her mother, Michelle Snyder, and with the two young children she had with Kislow.

A family already dealing with one member’s post-traumatic stress disorder now must deal with its contagion of death, disruption and the cruel uncertainty of why these things happen at all.

Robert Kislow seemed to be coping. Unlike many active soldiers and veterans who suffer under the stigma of asking for help, Kislow was active in dealing with PTSD, according to many who knew him. After incurring multiple wounds a few months into his deployment in Afghanistan in 2005 and losing a leg, he recovered from his physical injuries, went to college, started a family, and demonstrated a willingness to share his story with others. Two years ago he and Amanda took ownership of a home built for them by Homes for Our Troops. Kislow spoke publicly about PTSD and reached out to other veterans struggling with its latent demons.
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