COVID-19 Message! Increasing Suicide Rates for Returning Vets AFTER Treatment - a podcast by Leanne Meier, BSN, RN

I was first aware of this topic from seeing the documentary: Medicating Normal, about military veterans returning from war, receiving psychiatric care and polypharmacy. The unusual piece is that the number of suicides of such veterans AFTER this treatment is up significantly & far more than the general public. Angela Peacock is one of the vets, whose story is told in the video & Dr. Mary Vieten is a vet and founder of the Warfighter Advance program to help support these vets toward health WITHOUT medication. This story is not only important, but stunning. It speaks to me on many levels, but most immediately because of my growing discomfort with the treatment of mental health patients in America. Over-medication of individuals seems to be prevalent, lack of nature in unnatural environments. “Beautiful” locked wards, but a minimal amount of outlets for normalcy: music, human conversation, productive “work” to fill long days of monotony. What really heals humans after inhuman trauma?

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