Sure the final decision was his, but also understand that someone that serious about suicide is not mentally well. The last four years in the Army we had to go through suicide prevention training once every three months because the numbers of soldiers who had been to Iraq and Afghanistan who had committed suicide while still in service or sometime after being released from active duty. For the most part, suicidal people are suffering from deep depression, which is a mental disorder and are not thinking rationally.
so if the military recruiters totally disregard a 19 year old boy who at 12 was hospitalized for multiple attempts at suicide, then the military wonders why they, the responsible party of influence in future situations why they get suicides around wartime? They don''t care who they recruit as long as they have warm blood.
My son, who was suicidal and had to be hosptialized at 12 and on medication for 5 years (supposed to be more) but was so eloquently conned by a military recruiter who totally ignored his mental history and enrolled him in wartime. So if your theory is correct, then the military's PTSD problem is most likely caused by their own convincing of young adults or older who have a mental history of suicide to either committ suicide or have a long term mental health condition.
Suicide is a multifactoral issue. It's not plain black and white.
There are many relationships that cause deep depression that partners ignore. They continue doing critical and demeaning, unloving things and if the other has a history already of depression that usually ends in either a slow suicide or suicide.
Depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain.
So the military wasting money on inservices really when they should counsel recruiters who want to recruit people who have depression should be the focus.
Also if this theory is correct then the military causes many suicides a year. And they don't care either from the beginning.
I had a friend I worked with , a close one who had relationship problems with her 32 year old druggie son who lived with her.
She was always the nicest person and the first to ride in my new mustang in 2005 with me.
She had a discussion /argument and also had a history of depression and she told her son she was going to blow her head off.
She went in her back yard, got a lawn chair and shot herself in the head.
Did he cause it? Directly no she made that decision but she had been through so much pain from her abusive husband and son that in that moment she wanted relief. Indirectly, probably because there is just so much people can take being the caretaker of all for all time. When someone feels abandoned over and over and pretty much told their useless or do nothing right, that is conditioning someone to kill themselvess
Either people are part of the solution or part of the problem.
This girl was part of the problem.
When the conditions are favorable for a person who already is depressed, the liklihood is higher for suicide. It doesn't select whether you are in the military or not or rich or poor, white or black.
