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Good info for Vets. - 11/16/2011 5:01:09 AM

Hillwilliam

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I'm putting this in P & R and also in off topic because I feel it's important info.
Mods, feel free to zap one of them if you feel it isnt important.

I have no idea how old this organization is but this is the first Ive seen of it.

Veteran's Crisis Line

1-800-273-8255 Press 1 from the main menu.

Confidential chat at veteranscrisisline.net.

This is Administered by the US dept of Veterans Affairs as a suicide/depression/mental health line.
I hope none of you Vets need this but here it is.

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RE: Good info for Vets. - 11/16/2011 6:44:18 AM

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About once every hour 24/7/365 one of our brothers and sisters opts for a body bag.
This from the cite below:

Four months later, they sent CBS News a document, showing that between 1995 and 2007, there were almost 2,200 suicides. That's 188 last year alone. But these numbers included only "active duty" soldiers.

CBS News went to the Department of Veterans Affairs, where Dr. Ira Katz is head of mental health.

"There is no epidemic in suicide in the VA, but suicide is a major problem," he said.

Why hasn't the VA done a national study seeking national data on how many veterans have committed suicide in this country?

"That research is ongoing," he said.

So CBS News did an investigation - asking all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for veterans and non-veterans, dating back to 1995. Forty-five states sent what turned out to be a mountain of information.

And what it revealed was stunning.

In 2005, for example, in just those 45 states, there were at least 6,256 suicides among those who served in the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week, in just one year.

Dr. Steve Rathbun is the acting head of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department at the University of Georgia. CBS News asked him to run a detailed analysis of the raw numbers that we obtained from state authorities for 2004 and 2005.

It found that veterans were more than twice as likely to commit suicide in 2005 than non-vets. (Veterans committed suicide at the rate of between 18.7 to 20.8 per 100,000, compared to other Americans, who did so at the rate of 8.9 per 100,000.)

One age group stood out. Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. (The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000.)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3496471.shtml

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RE: Good info for Vets. - 11/16/2011 7:29:21 AM

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That's why I put it there. If, God forbid, one of the vets on this forum is considering suicide or other self harm CALL the number.

You guys and gals deserve better.

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RE: Good info for Vets. - 11/16/2011 9:13:07 AM

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

That's why I put it there. If, God forbid, one of the vets on this forum is considering suicide or other self harm CALL the number.

You guys and gals deserve better.

There are none who have been there who have not considered it.

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