Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide

Post by snakeyjake » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 10:50 PM UTC

ein0p wrote: post #8

snakeyjake wrote: post #5

I was an infantryman in the Army for ten years, from 1998 to 2008, and deployed three times, twice to Iraq, Encounters with IEDs were common, especially during the surge. So many of my friends have died to suicide or have killed themselves due to drugs and/or alcohol that it is hard to keep track. Now that primadonna seals are dying maybe someone will pay attention. Thankfully the only lasting effects of my deploymen…

Do you think it's because of whatever brain damage they may have encountered, or because they could not find meaning in their civilian lives? I've read it's often the latter in military men, especially the ones that really believed in the mission and experienced highly stressful life or death situations. They come back and they're taken aback by the mundane bullshit that our lives are in comparison to what they've be…

Post by pedalpete » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 11:11 PM UTC

yieldcrv wrote: post #6

This is the kind of research I've been yearning to see on suicide. Just telling people not to, or to call a hotline, seemed like the worst most patronizing advice as it never solved the underlying thing. I've since learned that there is a subset of suicidal people where that's enough, where the suicidal tendency is a kneejerk decision that can be disrupted, but it bugged me that its not serving everyone that becomes…

Post by shrimp_emoji » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 11:25 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #14

toomuchtodo wrote: post #12

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Yet another reason to not join the military. You’re just fuel for the machine. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/14/armys-recruit...

These days we have a senate committee approving a bill that would register women for the draught… it’s getting closer. Men aren’t enough, for this machine, apparently.

Post by snakeyjake » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 11:42 PM UTC

nightowl_games wrote: post #16

snakeyjake wrote: post #11

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>Do you think it's because of whatever brain damage they may have encountered, or because they could not find meaning in their civilian lives? I have no idea. Strangely the most common thread seems to be the ones who off themselves went back home after getting out. Almost everyone I know who got out and stayed away from home is doing ok. Almost everyone I know who got out and went back home is a wreck. Some had TBI e…

What do you mean by stayed away from home? Like stayed away from the wife and kids? For how long?

Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Jul 01, 2024, 12:07 AM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #18

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #15

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Equality should mean equality! :D

I hear you. But women can continue the line —society. Men can’t bear children —society dies. Men get sent to war, women stay in the homeland, many of the men may not return and the women may have to persevere, with sacrifice but society can push on. If it were reversed, that society may well collapse. The Spartans didn’t send their women off and let the men stay back in the homeland.