What can crisis interventionists and other civilians involved in suicide prevention do to better understand and assist veterans and their families? First, they can ask if military service ...
Monthly Archives: May 2004
Stressors can overwhelm
After the terrorist events of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans can perhaps better grasp the lingering mental effects of feeling under siege, of having personal safety threatened by fear-provoking ...
Partner to ease pain
She’s an accountant by training, but Tara Barton was called on in February 2004 to reach someone who was acutely suicidal. The person in crisis was the wife of a member of the New Mexico National ...
High cost of service
Some reflections from those who lost loved ones who served in the military to suicide: THE FRIEND: Thomas Cook, 35 “I believe he never left Vietnam in his head because he always talked ...
Battle Wounds
Battle Wounds Sleeping with a loaded weapon. Being surrounded by unpredictable rocket, mortar and sniper attacks. Not knowing who the enemy is. Gathering body parts after a fellow soldier steps ...