Expert: Redeployment sparks many suicides
April 20, 2009
David Rudd, Texas Tech University professor and author 'Interpersonal Theory of Suicide,' said the more a person is exposed to violence or death, the more that person loses anxiety about death. This specifically applies to soldiers living in a war zone because the interaction with death makes it more probable that these people will kill themselves when they get depressed or anxious.
Written by: Jessica Behnham
The number of soldier suicides this year is most likely due to the redeployment of soldiers with psychiatric illnesses, a U.S. researcher says.