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Veteran Suicide

[Ellie Souter (snowboarder, 2018); Frank Wycheck (NFL, 2025); Demaryius Thomas (NFL, 2021); Mike Webster (NFL, 2002); Kelly Caitlin (Olympic cycling, 2019); Chris Simon (NHL, 2024); Phillip Adams (NFL, 2021); Mike Day (SEAL, 2023); WWII 1000 yard TBI stare; Ryan Larkin (SEAL, 2017); Heather Anderson (AFLW, 2023); John Mackey, NFL, 2011] Failing to treat brain wounds can lead to degraded lives, escalating healthcare costs, depression, and suicide. Images of successes and the history of servicemember suicides and effects of negligence can be found here. Those above are mostly dead from suicide, diagnosed after death with CTE.
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Thank You for Your Sacrifice

Robert Beckman 1008 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

What do the pictures have in common? The faces of brain injured Warriors and athletes who sacrificed, not just served. And too many dead with undiagnosed brain wounds.

We’re twenty-four years out since 9/11. On the order of fifteen thousand Americans — roughly seven thousand U.S. service members and about eight thousand U.S. military contractors — have been killed in the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and related theaters, according to the best available research. Ten times that number are dead from suicide over the same period, and 877,000+ Veterans and millions of citizens suffer with untreated brain wounds.

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Veterans Brain Wound Awakening: Part 2

Robert Beckman 1325 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

Over 66,000 Veteran Service Organizations have sprung up since 9/11. No one can doubt the overwhelming resilience of most Veterans and the goodwill shown by foundations and volunteers, and billions of dollars of donated monies spent to restore normalcy to Veterans injured in war. No doubt the intentions of investigators on the DOD Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee meant well with their Report that encouraged “caring contacts” but said not a word about healing brain wounds. The entire tenor of the Report ignores any discussion about the physiological underpinnings of suicidal ideation. Suicide continues to be viewed as a problem fixable by more human contact, mental health programs, and psychiatric and drug interventions, not as a physiological condition brought about in any way by an untreated brain wound.

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Traumatic Brain Injury and Veteran Suicidal Thoughts
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Veteran Suicidal Thoughts

Robert Beckman 1284 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

TBI appears to compound suicide risk in veterans: those who experience TBI are 1.5 times more likely to die by suicide than veterans without TBI . . . . This is particularly concerning given the prevalence of TBI in post-9/11 veterans

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Helping the VA do the Right Things, Starting with Suicide Prevention

Robert Beckman 1226 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

Inform Veterans about alternatives to pharmaceuticals; alternative, non-invasive, proven therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) that actually heal brain wounds instead of the “mental health” approach: masking and palliating symptoms forever. . . . or until the Veteran disappears or succumbs to suicide.

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A New Partnership in The Villages Puts Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to Work for Veterans with PTSD
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A New Partnership in The Villages Puts Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to Work for Veterans with PTSD

Robert Beckman 2284 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

The Tampa-based non-profit Koterra looks to technology to address dire need for treatments and prevent veteran suicides. Florida High TechRead more

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PTSD “Awareness” Update: 20-year longitudinal data study after 9/11

Robert Beckman 1792 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

The month of June was intended to give more time and visibility to education, advocacy, and support for those affected by post-traumatic stress disorder—both veterans and civilians alike. 15 years later, we still have an epidemic of suicides in service members: now over 153,000 since 9/11. Cases of PTSD are on the rise, owing in part to the COVID pandemic and the effects of long-haul COVID.

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MEMORIAL DAY 2025

Robert Beckman 1602 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 
Memorial Day is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country. What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead who made their breasts [and their brains] a barricade between our country and its foes? Read More
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Press Release: North Dakota Votes for HBOT for TBI/PTSD

James Black 2264 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 
North Dakota becomes the 11th state to vote to provide Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to Veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). ND joins the first ten states calling for change in the VA to provide and pay for HBOT for TBI/PTSD. Those states are: OK, TX, IN, KY, AZ, FL, NC, MD, WY, and VA. A total of over $30Million has already been appropriated for treatments. The TreatNOW Coalition has helped heal over 31,000 citizens, including over 12,500 Veterans. Read More
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Rx Drugs and Suicidal Ideation

Robert Beckman 1569 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

Veterans with brain wounds will talk about how much relief they get from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, particularly the ability to get off the drugs that seemingly made them worse, not better. This applies directly to the anti-depression drugs prescribed throughout the VA. But there are unintended consequences of the prescribing behavior in the VA that go unreported, even to the Veterans.

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VA: Be Broken, or be Broken Open

Robert Beckman 1813 Views ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 
When the U.S. Veterans Affairs medical complex in Aurora, the “calamity,” finally opened in July 2018, a decade behind schedule and more than $1 billion over its initial budget, it was already the most expensive VA hospital in the country. Three years later, costs to get the 11-building, 1.2 million-square-foot, 31-acre medical campus operating pushed the total tab to more than $2 billion. Read More