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Mental disorders, not combat, tied to military suicide
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 7 August 2013 | Genevra Pittman

Posted on 08/07/2013 8:33:39 AM PDT by Excellence

Mental health prior to ever seeing combat was the main driver for later suicide risk.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: military; suicide
Don't know what the posting rules are for Reuters via anybody, so I'm just posting linky. I think this thing is full of holes. Plus, study group stops when zero takes over. How convenient.
1 posted on 08/07/2013 8:33:39 AM PDT by Excellence
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To: Excellence

It’s Al-Reuters.

Not worth reading at any time.


2 posted on 08/07/2013 8:37:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Excellence

Since the military is now an insane asylum, I’m not surprised.


3 posted on 08/07/2013 8:40:25 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Excellence

When somebody mentions the cocktails of drugs (including - no ESPECIALLY - the malaria ones) these guys get pumped full of, I’ll listen. But that’s the elephant in the room we don’t talk about for some reason. I guess we’re afraid of sounding like Tom Cruise.


4 posted on 08/07/2013 8:43:23 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Excellence

Are you aware that military folks commit suicide at roughly the same rate as others in the US?


5 posted on 08/07/2013 8:47:07 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: fwdude

“Since the military is now an insane asylum”

Sad, but true.


6 posted on 08/07/2013 8:48:56 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: Straight Vermonter

That is the assertion that the study makes.


7 posted on 08/07/2013 8:52:17 AM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: Excellence

I call BULLSHIT!


8 posted on 08/07/2013 8:58:41 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: Excellence
COMMUNIST GOALS, 1963

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

9 posted on 08/07/2013 9:10:38 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

I wont call bullshit.
Can you imagine you sacrificing your life for America run by a muslim who changes the rules of engagement to give the MUSLIM enemy the advantage?... which only creates a futile purpose... then Obama goes on to destroy the military?

He is taking our secrets, giving them out, cutting funding, removing our advantage that we worked and paid for.....

Commander in chief? That is where the bullshit lies.

Destroyer, internal treasonous destroyer with one goal.

Could you work for a boss like that?


10 posted on 08/07/2013 9:17:40 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Excellence

I’ve never even been *close* to combat but I’ve had contact with those who have,having been assigned to medical units.Combat can change a guy...more often than not those changes are not positive ones.Yes,mental problems may have existed in a particular soldier *before* combat but even in *those* cases the combat experience will very probably worsen things.Sometimes a lot.


11 posted on 08/07/2013 9:22:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: Old Sarge

Keep it up, Sarge.

Sooner or later, people will say, “OMG! It’s really happening!”


12 posted on 08/07/2013 9:28:49 AM PDT by Walrus (America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
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To: Gay State Conservative
True that. And couldn't have anything to do with 3-4 deployments in their FIRST enlistment.
13 posted on 08/07/2013 11:01:17 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Old Sarge

bttt


14 posted on 08/07/2013 12:43:27 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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