Beneath the headline another Marine ended his own life

Beneath the headline came this.

"One of the things he would say to the family is that that MMA fighting was helpful to him," said Ricci, "and he was managing anger and frustration best when he was training and in the gym."

Mixed Martial Arts can be a part of healing but it cannot be the only thing they do. I am sorry but as good of a story at this is about an aunt doing what she can so that other veterans do not take their own lives instead of heal, it shows more about families not having a clue what PTSD is or why the veterans suffer so much.

Wasn't that supposed to be what all the "training" the military has been doing all these years with their "resilience" training? How could this Marine not get the help he needed and why was this family not given what they needed to understand it?

It is because the "program" isn't even close to doing what the military brass told us it would and one of the biggest reasons suicides, as well as attempted suicides, have gone up among the troops and our veterans.

MMA vs. PTSD fundraiser Saturday at Chaifetz Arena
KSDK News
By Art Holliday
October 21, 2013

ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Linda Ricci misses her nephew, Adam Muffler.

"I knew him as the kid who rolled around on grandma's floor with my kids," said Ricci.

Muffler graduated from Webster Groves High School. As a Marine corporal, Muffler saw tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"After the second deployment he was a different kid and he struggled with anger and frustration," said Ricci. "Handling everyday complications became difficult for him."

Ricci says one of the ways Muffler coped was competing in mixed martial arts, one of his passions.

"One of the things he would say to the family is that that MMA fighting was helpful to him," said Ricci, "and he was managing anger and frustration best when he was training and in the gym."

At the age of 24, whatever Muffler was struggling with became too much. He took his own life November 4, 2012.

"It was the darkest winter for most of us," said Ricci. "It was the call you never ever want to get and I think everybody's constantly reflecting on things they would've done or would've said or would have urged him to do."
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