Posted on Apr 13, 2019
Marine Corps suicides have reached their highest level in a decade despite the end of large-scale...
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Here are my recommendations:
-Leaders need to be educated on PTSD, compassion, and mental health processes.
-Marines should be educated on how to ask for help, and there is no shame in asking for help. Sometimes the warrior ethos precludes people asking for help.
-There should be a more robust screening upon redeployment.
-Units with PTSD marines need to understand the focus should be on healing and therapy. The crux of the matter is they have PTSD, and they are not bad marines.
-Leaders need to be educated on PTSD, compassion, and mental health processes.
-Marines should be educated on how to ask for help, and there is no shame in asking for help. Sometimes the warrior ethos precludes people asking for help.
-There should be a more robust screening upon redeployment.
-Units with PTSD marines need to understand the focus should be on healing and therapy. The crux of the matter is they have PTSD, and they are not bad marines.
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