Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Stung by Suicide
August 14, 2014
Here is the latest Afterburner video by Bill Whittle entitled ‘Stung by Suicide.’ In this somber, yet wonderful, video he piggybacks on Robin Williams’s suicide, while opening up about his own bouts with depression, to talk about the fact that 20 veterans commit suicide every day.
But it goes beyond that as he makes a plea to the American people to reach out to veterans and he also reaches out to all those suffering from depression by urging them to seek therapy because they are not alone. He states that medication is a band-aide, but therapy is the surgery which can save lives.
Enjoy:
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Since veterans are about 15% of the adult population, and there are about 40,000 adult suicides per year, the expected annual number of veterans suicides would be about 6000.
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If the 22 per day figure is correct, that accounts for about 8000 per year, which might imply the rate for vets is 1/3 higher than for all adults – BUT that would be misleading.
80% of suicides are male. 87% of living veterans are male. So if you do math, you can see that not only isn’t 22 veteran suicides a day a crisis, it’s not at all unexpected.
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