Indeed. Suicide rates in the US reached an all-time high last year: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/cdc-data-finds-suicides-reached-time-high-2022

Indeed. Suicide rates in the US reached an all-time high last year: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/cdc-data-finds-suicides-reached-time-high-2022-rcna99327 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/cdc-data-finds-... I didn't really see the article itself as victim blaming, but I agree that the way suicide is framed often does just that, and there's a bit of that covered in the piece. Not a collective effort by professional groups to address the stressors identified, but a focus on the mental state of the vets, as if it's all in their head and a "mental hygenic" issue. This approach seems pretty par for the course now: mental wellness is a focus in professional groups, HR, whatever, but it's seen as something like exercise, where whatever happens is caused by the person's own head, and the stressors are just part of normal life, not something to be fixed or changed. Sometimes I've felt like society gets way off course, and huge systemic gaps that develop, between reality and the schemas in people's minds about what's going on. There are usually segments of society that end up picking up the slack, depending on the worst parts of society's distortions, and in this case it feels like vets are one of those groups.