Memorial Day is traditionally a day for remembering American service members who died in armed conflict, but it's also important to remember those who died by suicide after returning home with severe emotional and physical scars.
Memorial Day is traditionally a day for remembering American service members who died in armed conflict, but it's also important to remember those who died by suicide after returning home with severe emotional and physical scars.
Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death for all Americans, and the national rate has increased in nearly every state since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicide affects people of all backgrounds, ages and professions. The mother of three said that every death by suicide directly impacts 135 people. She also knows that the chances of suicide in a family are amplified once someone dies by suicide. Those are the people Kim is trying to help at TAPS.
"The unit I was with, there's 747 names on the Vietnam Wall in a 10-year span. The 1/9 were the 'walking dead.' They lost more men and were in [the] country longer than any other unit in Marine Corp. history," O'Brien said. TAPS uses three phases to help survivors. First is stabilization; then grief work, helping those who are grieving to move away from focusing on how a person died to focus on how they lived; and, finally, post-traumatic growth, or finding meaning in the loss, such as using it as motivation to prevent other suicides.
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