American female veterans are committing suicide at more than twice the rate of civilian women, a US government study has found.
The survey released by US Department for Veteran Affairs on Friday, showed that the ratio of women veterans who took their own lives increased from 1.88 in 2013 to 2.15 in 2014 compared to non-veteran females.
The report’s findings were based on data gathered from 50 US states along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and analyzed more than 55 million people who left the US military between 1970 and 2014.
“These findings are deeply concerning, which is why I made suicide prevention my top clinical priority,” said VA Secretary Dr. David J. Shulkin.
Critics blasted Shulkin’s agency for attempting to throw the “suicide stats out the back door” by releasing the report at “the close of business” in late Friday, when it was likely to go unnoticed by most news outlets.
The new VA report confirmed previous studies that suicide rate among veteran women had been steadily rising over the past decade. The age-adjusted rate of suicide has shown a 24-percent increase for both men and women veterans between 1999 and 2014.
While in general more American men commit suicide than women, the rate of suicide among female veterans has outgrown that of male veterans during the same period.
Today, the VA is providing care to some two million women veterans. This is while, almost 15 percent of the US Army’s 1.3 million troops on active duty are women.
‘Military sexual trauma’
While all soldiers are deemed vulnerable to experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, financial constraints and injuries in warfare, female soldiers in the US military face more serious challenges.
Female US military personnel experience more instances of sexual harassment, sexual discrimination and rape in the military compared to men, an issue that leads to mental health issues, or “military sexual trauma,” to borrow the words of Letrice Titus, herself a veteran.
The systematic discrimination against women in the US military came to light in 2014, after groups of female veterans sued the VA for denying claims by thousands of women who said they had suffered PTSD after enduring harassment during their service.
http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/09/23/536197/US-veterans-affairs-female-suicide-rate-Shulkin
You can’t put a rose in an incinerator and expect it to come out okay.
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I wonder if any humans are ever born “nuts,” or if it is only a consequence of the insanity thrust upon them. I wonder.
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one has to be nuts to join the military so there is that……..
They’ve turned the military into one big social experiment. Gays, trannies, bi’s-all kind of sexual perverts preying on both men and women (they cover up the male rape which has escalated). And on top of that troops aren’t even in the war to win or “fight the enemy”. They are put in harm’s way in protracted engagements for the sake of allowing corporations to earn billions and get access to resources in other countries. Who wouldn’t want to commit suicide being used like that? I pray for all those who joined to sincerely serve, not knowing what they were getting into.
I guess now they finally have equal rights.
I guess this will balance out the statistics that more men are raped by other men than women being raped by men in the armed services.
I honestly think this is just due to more females now in the armed services
Stands to reason
More of one thing or another
Equals a record of more , when there wasn’t that equation before
Simple common sense