Recent Posts Tagged With 'suicide'

• A Post from the Edge

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 10:54 in suicide, ptsd, war veterans, suicidal thoughts, physical symptoms, suicide attempts

  Gun 2 by Cathy Kaplan of Pittsburgh, PAKayla Williams posted a great piece at the Huffington Post: the view from the trigger end of the gun of a PTSD suicide. The gun is heavy in my hand, cold, solid. I sit on the edge of my bathtub and stare at it. ...

• PTSD may be to blame for Nellis AFB's airman's murder-suicide

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 20:55 in suicide, iraq war, ptsd, war veterans, suicide attempts

  From Las Vegas comes news of another tragedy that may be due to a soldier’s PTSD. Although unconfirmed by the Air Force at press time, sources who knew the couple say that Airman Jason Matthew Klinkenberg was the soldier who held what was descr...

• "Terrifing" statistic: more Army suicides than combat deaths this January

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 08:57 in suicide, us army, war veterans, us marine corps, suicide attempts, battlemind, army deaths, marine corps deaths

  Lebanon: bomb damage caused by Israel in Summer 2006, by H Assaf of Lebanon, courtesy stock.XchngPhilip Dawdy cross-posted a February 5, 2009 cnn.com report that the U.S. Army has confirmed more deaths in January 2009 were due to suicide than combat ...

• AP: Army suicide rates highest since 1980

  Posted on Saturday January 31st, 2009 at 06:24 in Army, suicide, ptsd, war veterans, suicide attempts, wounded warriorsl

  The Associated Press reported on January 29, 2009 that at least 128 U.S. Army troops committed suicide in 2008, the highest number recorded since the Army began keeping suicide statistics in 1980. The number may even be higher; at least 15 additional...