{"id":38376,"date":"2013-11-12T07:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38376"},"modified":"2013-11-12T07:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T12:13:24","slug":"pts-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38376","title":{"rendered":"PTS myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to NBC News entitled “What you think you know about veterans is probably wrong<\/a>“. I expected it to be a POS article about how veterans are blood-lusting mass murderers, because it was written by two people, Sally Satel and Richard J. McNally from the Atlantic. But it turns out that the article is just the opposite. <\/p>\n

They track the myth of the crazed veteran from it’s hippie roots after Vietnam, through Hollywood depictions and eventually they get to the actual truth about vets with PTS and the suicide scourge; <\/p>\n

[O]ne of the most important forms of care a veteran can receive is the work itself. Based upon our experience with patients, work is the single most effective key to easing financial stress, marital tensions, and the void of loneliness. Unfortunately, unemployment among veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is almost 10 percent, above the national average. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs puts the numbers of veterans who die by suicide at between 18-22 per day. While the percentage of all suicides nationwide reported as \u201cveteran\u201d has decreased since 2000, the absolute number of suicides by veterans has increased. Yet over half of the veterans who died by suicide last year were over 50 years of age; far fewer were from the post-9\/11 cohort.<\/p>\n

Contrary to expectation, the roots of suicide do not appear to lie in the number or extent of deployments, exposure to combat, or to PTSD itself, as data from the massive US Millennium Cohort Study indicate.<\/p>\n

In fact, according to a study featured in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2013, over half of all active duty personnel who died by suicide between July 2001 and December 2008 were never deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and 77 percent of all personnel who died by suicide never saw combat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, at TAH we’ve been broadcasting those simple facts for years, but no one is listening – the solution for veterans is put them to work, and you have nothing to fear from them if you do give them a job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to NBC News entitled “What you think you know about veterans … PTS myths<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}