They work at the edge of life and death, firefighters along with others exposed to traumatic stress, among them soldiers and military veterans, paramedics and police officers. And if they are ...
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Hurricane’s wake
Suicides triple in wake of Hurricane Katrina The emotional effects of seeing homes, neighborhoods and lives destroyed continue to plague residents of the Gulf Coast more than a year after the ...
Storm surge
The suicides are starting to swell. These deaths—sudden, violent and wrenching—bring a whole new wave of grief and despair to former Gulf Coast residents, some of them now back home, most still ...
Native youngsters
Far too many Native youngsters live in homes broken by poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence, incarceration and suicide. Communities in Indian Country, scarred by centuries of historical ...
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 ...
Not all vets tap VA services
Those working in suicide prevention in the civilian sector shouldn’t assume that the mental health needs of soldiers and veterans are being fully met by the Department of Defense or the ...