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The Veterans Crisis Line is fielding a record number of cries for help, VA stats show
« on: April 23, 2023, 11:03:06 am »
 
The Veterans Crisis Line is fielding a record number of cries for help, VA stats show
Story by Melissa Chan • Yesterday 11:00 AM

The Veterans Crisis Line is fielding a record number of cries for help, the Department of Veterans Affairs said, amid increased mental health concerns for post-9/11 veterans and service members.

The suicide hotline received more than 88,000 calls, texts and chats in March — the highest amount of monthly contacts it has ever had, according to new federal data obtained by NBC News.

Last month’s figure is nearly 28% higher than the busiest of any month in the first 10 months of the pandemic and 15% higher than August 2021, when calls surged after Kabul fell to the Taliban.


“We’re on the front end of a mental health tsunami,” said Scott Mann, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who served three tours in Afghanistan.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-veterans-crisis-line-is-fielding-a-record-number-of-cries-for-help-va-stats-show/ar-AA1abWHX
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Re: The Veterans Crisis Line is fielding a record number of cries for help, VA stats show
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2023, 11:05:24 am »
I've been out of the military almost 47 years and it feels sometimes like I'm going to sh*t my pants reading about how the military is destroying itself.  I can only imagine the terror of being on active duty watching it happen. :pondering:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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