SUICIDE is not the answer. Identifying Service Members who are at risk of suicide is not enough. Political leaders, military leaders, families, and friends can do more before a person reaches the point of wanting to end his or her own life. Individually, we can do more for ourselves too.
Do you know someone who has gone through a traumatic event and who may be experiencing a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? PTSD can destroy the bonds of any relationship. It effects not only the survivor, but it hurts family members and friends too. The onset of PTSD can occur with any life-altering situation including but not limited to having been exposed to combat, being the victim of sexual or physical abuse, being involved in a serious accident such as a car wreck, enduring a natural disaster, or going through a personal betrayal or divorce.
A traumatic event may leave the survivor scarred, angry, or confused. Denying these feelings won’t make the situation better, and the symptoms experienced may disrupt the survivor's career, marriage, and life – leaving only thoughts of aggression or suicide. Finding Myself (A Soldier's Recovery From Betrayal, Embattlement, & Divorce) is a story about the unique challenges that I have faced, and what many other military members and their families have sturggled with too. It also reveals some of the emotional and physical damage done to people, like myself, when we are betrayed by our superiors, when we are abandoned by those we love, when we face the horrors of war, and when we realize that we have become victims of criminal activity or find ourselves abandoned in marriage.
This book will help anyone who is trying to recover from a traumatic event, anyone who has been betrayed, and anyone trying to recover from a divorce.
Proceeds from the sale of this book are used to help Service Members and their families. Each book you buy helps put a copy of it into the hands of one of the brave men and women of our U.S. Armed Forces.
Visit Monday Morning Ministries to find out how proceeds from this book and your donations are helping to provide the men and women of our U.S. Armed Forces with resources to save their marriages and to recover from PTSD.
"Any Soldier, from Private to General, may need help at some time in their Army career," GEN Chiarelli (Army Vice Chief of Staff) said.
"Seeking that help, without fear of stigma, has to become second nature in our Army community, it has to become part of our culture.
We're not there yet, but we're going to get there." Excerpt from Army Releases March Suicide Data, 10 Apr 09, by LTC George Wright.