anthony
26-06-2006, 11:48 PM
I am reading through the backlog of PTSD news, and I am baffled at how many new articles I am seeing released about sufferers of PTSD killing themselves, their family, friends and basically anyone who gets in their way. I have posted below just the links to them all, because they are just stacking up to post individually. This should give you an idea of the seriousness of PTSD, why you need help and constant support, so you don't fall into these life factors below, or become a statistic in the wrong method.
Florida murder suicide - In Vietnam, he flew helicopters for the 335th Aviation Company, called the Cowboys. The Times interviewed a dozen Cowboys, who recalled Nicholaou as a brave and duty-bound man with a dark side. A least once he left camp on his own, carrying only a knife and seeking hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. It became a legend in the company.Soldier suicides hint at military failure - Army Spc. Jeffrey Henthorn, 25, of Choctaw, Okla., was sent back to Iraq for a second tour even though his superiors knew he had twice threatened suicide. He killed himself in 2005.
Army Pfc. David L. Potter, 22, of Johnson City, Tenn., was diagnosed with anxiety and depression while serving in Iraq in 2004. Records show Potter remained on active duty in Baghdad despite a suicide attempt and a psychiatrist's recommendation that he be separated from the Army. Ten days after the recommendation was signed, he slid a gun out from under another soldier's bed and shot himself.Two men face death for brutal slaying of wife and her father - Wilcox, who once worked as a data entry clerk for an accounting firm owned by Chartier, earned a Purple Heart as a Marine after surviving bombing in Beirut in 1983. According to his attorney, the bombing left him with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Florida murder suicide - In Vietnam, he flew helicopters for the 335th Aviation Company, called the Cowboys. The Times interviewed a dozen Cowboys, who recalled Nicholaou as a brave and duty-bound man with a dark side. A least once he left camp on his own, carrying only a knife and seeking hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. It became a legend in the company.Soldier suicides hint at military failure - Army Spc. Jeffrey Henthorn, 25, of Choctaw, Okla., was sent back to Iraq for a second tour even though his superiors knew he had twice threatened suicide. He killed himself in 2005.
Army Pfc. David L. Potter, 22, of Johnson City, Tenn., was diagnosed with anxiety and depression while serving in Iraq in 2004. Records show Potter remained on active duty in Baghdad despite a suicide attempt and a psychiatrist's recommendation that he be separated from the Army. Ten days after the recommendation was signed, he slid a gun out from under another soldier's bed and shot himself.Two men face death for brutal slaying of wife and her father - Wilcox, who once worked as a data entry clerk for an accounting firm owned by Chartier, earned a Purple Heart as a Marine after surviving bombing in Beirut in 1983. According to his attorney, the bombing left him with post-traumatic stress disorder.