Suicides in U.S. Military

The last 3 years have seen an incredible increase in U.S. Military Suicides. I have noticed that there is a correlation with military, local police and even firemen that if someone is having a problem psychologically that people in their careers tend to cover this problem up. If you go get counseling for a real or perceived problem you usually will lose your career. So, if you have a wife and children likely you might live with whatever the PTSD or other problem is until you self destruct because you are worrying either about your career or your family or both. Since most suicides are young men it might mean that things are coming up for them that they cannot find useful ways to deal with. Since the choice now is live with whatever it is or lose your career, most will choose to hide whatever it is until it is too late to treat.

Though most of these types of careers have a type of psychological screening that takes place to check for Post Traumatic Stress disorder, soldiers, police and fireman all coach each other in what one can say and still keep their career intact. So, keeping their jobs whatever it is comes first. Because if they lose their jobs how soon might one of them or their families wind up homeless? I think if you want to address military suicides realistically the capacity to get new jobs easier would have to be addressed first in order to lessen military suicides. So, I would say realistically under the present circumstances it would make sense that military suicides will likely continue to increase unless something major changes. Military suicides likely will begin to reduce when the troops are all withdrawn from Afghanistan.