US Army suicides up over losing without grace, according to Russian news

US Army suicides grow as soldiers unable to lose with grace – army expert
Voice of Russia
April 2, 2014

US Army suicides are on the increase as soldiers are unable to lose with grace, according to an army expert. One new study found an increasing amount of Americans are suicidal even before they enter into the military and have a hard time defusing their aliment— intermittent explosive disorder, or repeated anger fits. An expert in military coaching, Jaynine Ray-Howard, gave the Voice of Russia the inside scoop on the silent epidemic spreading throughout the nation.

She claims that family, friends, and military commanders need to team up to watch out for the tell-tale signs of suicide in fellow recruits.

The study's findings are quite disturbing, according to the documents posted by JAMA Psychiatry, a journal, it discovered that both males and females enlisted in the US Army have higher rates of suicidal tendencies. The fairly new report, released in the beginning of March 2014, found that the proportion of suicides in soldiers has more than doubled on an annual basis during the years of 2004 and 2009. Startling enough, over 23 per 100,000 combatants have committed suicidal. That number was at 10 per 100,000 on a yearly basis but data has indicated that number has clearly risen since then.

It is fair to point out that the rate of suicide has slightly fallen to 20 per 100,000, which is the average, but that number could easily rise once more if the suicide issue is not taken care of in the proper manner or worse off, blatantly ignored by US Army officials.

Intermittent explosive disorder is defined as an aliment causing the sufferer to ignite aggressive and violent acts, or verbally overreact to a situation in an intense and angry fashion in repeated episodes, according to The Mayo Clinic. People who have intermittent explosive disorder could plunge onto innocent people, attack their possessions, or worse injure themselves during an outburst. After an episode has come to an end, the aggressor may have feelings of remorse, be regretful, or totally ashamed of their actions.
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