"It was after worsening tremors and memory lapses forced him to quit the military, and after blackouts and violent rages cost him his civilian job and nearly drove away his wife, Jackie, and their four young children.
It was when he felt he'd failed as a warrior and failed as a dependable wage earner and failed as a husband and dad. When suicide began to look like the only option left....
"Invisible casualties, they are combat troops afflicted with brain injury and war trauma. They are victims of military sexual trauma. Aging veterans living alone with deteriorating bodies and minds. The physically wounded who've become addicted to painkillers, and people whose lives are temporarily derailed by the death of a loved one, illness, job loss, homelessness or the breakup of a close relationship.
"Follow any case of attempted or completed suicide far back enough and you will find one missed opportunity after another. Mental illness remains difficult to recognize, difficult to acknowledge...."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/veteran-suicide_n_3797649.html
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