{"id":40169,"date":"2014-03-04T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40169"},"modified":"2014-03-04T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T20:59:04","slug":"army-suicides-the-baggage-they-brought-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40169","title":{"rendered":"Army Suicides; The baggage they brought with them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/03\/04\/study-nearly-1-in-5-us-army-soldiers-had-mental-illness-before-enlistment\/\">CBS News<\/a> that reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/archpsyc.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1835336\">Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)<\/a> finds that 1-in-5 new recruits to the Army had mental problems before they enlisted and that 1-in-10 had contemplated suicide before they joined.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome of the differences in disorder rates are truly remarkable,\u201d said Ronald Kessler, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and senior author of the paper on mental disorder prevalence. \u201cThe rate of major depression is five times as high among soldiers as civilians, intermittent explosive disorder six times as high, and PTSD nearly 15 times as high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60 percent of solider suicide attempts were traced to pre-enlistment mental disorders, which are acutely more common among non-deployed U.S. Army soldiers than demographically similar portions of the general population, according to the study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, since we already know that the majority of suicides were among soldiers who hadn&#8217;t deployed, this kind of explains it. But TAH has been saying it for years. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38376\">last year<\/a> we said it at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36983\">twice<\/a>. While dumbasses were telling us it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32286\">guns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37498\">SGLI<\/a> that caused it. Even though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33092\">&#8216;experts&#8217; wanted to disarm the troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sends a link from CBS News that reports the Army Study to Assess Risk and &hellip; <a title=\"Army Suicides; The baggage they brought with them\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40169\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army Suicides; The baggage they brought with them<\/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-40169","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\/40169","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=40169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}