In 2016 the suicide rate of vets was 1.5 times that of non-vets.
...has it risen since Trump got elected by any chance?
Maybe they wanted to serve with a purpose and now they are disrespected and scattered and without any idea of why.
The outcome wasn’t certain, but in the 60 minutes that seemed to stretch for much longer between 1 and 2 a.m. Wednesday, while the swing states deciding our next president flipped between red and blue, the phone at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline rang 660 times.
People were scared — for their rights, for their safety, for their children.
They were thinking about taking their lives.
It was an unprecedented volume for that hour on a Wednesday — 2½ times the average — which is perhaps unsurprising when you consider the extreme levels of anxiety Americans feel during election cycles. They watch, overwhelmed, as the nation’s game plan changes overnight. They seek reassurance.
But this cycle, and this candidate, stoked fearful calls unmatched in the hotline’s history.
“We didn’t see numbers like this in 2008 or 2012,” Lifeline director John Draper told The Washington Post. “This was an extraordinary year by any stretch of the imagination.”
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