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The rate of suicides in the military is at its highest in nearly 90 years and there has been a noticeable jump in women personnel who end their lives, according to a new study from Brown University.
The Defense Department saw a 16 percent jump in suicides among troops in 2020, with 580 deaths total, the Military Times reported. More than 30,000 military personnel have killed themselves since the 9/11 attacks. The report said 22 members of the military kill themselves each day.
Jama Psychiatry reported that the COVID-19 outbreak has “raised considerable concerns about increased risk for suicidal behavior among US military veterans, who already had elevated rates of suicide before the pandemic.”
Fox News pointed out in January that more than 100 members of the U.S. military took their own lives in the third quarter of 2021. The figure is higher than the number of service members who have died from the coronavirus since the outbreak. As of January 8, 86 members of the military have died from the coronavirus, the report said.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mental health crisis in the country. (See “MENTALLY ILL POLITICIANS CREATING MENTAL ILLNESS,” “LOCKDOWN LUNACY CREATING ‘MENTAL HEALTH PANDEMIC” and “MORE KIDS DIE FROM SUICIDE THAN COVID.”)
The Brown study found that the number of suicides in the military is at its highest rate since 1938, and women accounted for 7 percent of all suicides, which is up from 4 percent in 2012.
TRENDPOST: Instead of the U.S. sending billions to keep the battlefields bloodied in Ukraine, some of the funding could have been better used to work on how to defeat our troops’ biggest killer.
The COVID-19 lockdowns have stolen the joy out of life and the country’s mental health may never recover. We still have not seen the long-term impact that the virus had on the country’s psyche.
TRENDPOST: Regarding military suicides, as Gerald Celente, the founder of Occupy Peace, wrote in 2015:
On a personal level, who would want to be in a relationship if it’s a constant battle? Whether between a couple or among nations, the choices are clear. Who doesn’t prefer peace to war? Living in peace provides many more benefits, is more joyous, enhances beauty and encourages creativity.
The march to war brings only death and destruction and breeds hatred and revenge. Some 22 U.S. veterans commit suicide each day; another 53 attempt suicide each day.
That should be headline news. How can the rationale that war is both a moral and an acceptable way of life be promoted while peace is just brushed off and dismissed as just a remote possibility? If that is true, then maybe we should be called the “inhuman” race because there is nothing human about a constant state of war.