A large number of veterans grapple with mental health issues after returning from deployment, and for many, the effects of these issues can be severe. Recent reports have revealed that veterans have been found to have a higher risk of suicide than the general public, leading to a call for improved mental health resources.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has now announced a new initiative to try and tackle the issue of veteran suicide. Under the new policy, any veteran that has is having suicidal thoughts or behavior will be eligible for free emergency mental health care at a VA or non-VA facility. This includes up to 30 days of inpatient care and 90 days of outpatient care.
These benefits are available to veterans regardless of whether they are enrolled with VA Healthcare.
The VA’s new policy aims to address the concerning trend of veteran suicide rates by providing free mental health resources to veterans in need.
The VA’s new policy is a major step forward in helping to provide critical support for our veterans. By offering free emergency mental health care, veterans in a suicidal crisis can gain access to the professional care and resources they need to help manage their mental health issues and hopefully find relief from the daily struggles they may face.
It’s important to recognize that the VA’s new policy is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to preventing veteran suicide. It’s also critical that we continue to provide access to more mental health resources, including reaching out to our veteran community to better understand their needs and seek out support. Ultimately, preventing veteran suicide will require a joint effort from both public and private sectors.
Veterans who are currently struggling can be connected to specialized help by calling the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 and then pressing 1.
Deny, Deny until you die. The VA motto. All way back to Vietnam, about Agent Orange
I guess I have to consider myself lucky. When I was discharged I went to Bay Pines VAMC and the Tampa VAMC. I moved back to the northwest. Started getting seen at this shit hole called the Saginaw VAMC. So, I moved towards the Detroit area and was seen at shit stop #2; the Detroit VAMC.
Now all my care is at the Ann Arbor VAMC. This place is wonderful! Top quality in every department where I was treated.
My Ptsd started to get evaluated back in 2007 at the Battle Creek VA. They were pretty good. I was inpatient there for 3 months and when done, Ann Arbor was ready for me to resume outpatient therapy immediately.. it was helpful. I’m stI’ll working myself out mentally at age 52, but at least I always have a person to talk to and not just the suicide hotline.
I’m glad the VA wants to improve their programs for us, but there is only so much they can do when their employees have serious problems.
The Criminal V A has created most of the VETS mental problems.. @@ vets a day commit suicide, a lot on VA property in an attempt to make a statement. The V A tries to blame suicides on PTSD in an attempt to cover their ass. The V A court of Veterans Appeals has been caught by the Court Of Military Appeals lying and manufacturing evidence against vets in their disability claims. This is not an indictment of corruption in the whole system, there are many V A Clinics and Hospitals such as Harlingen Texas that are terrific and others such Ozark Arkansas that are good old girl shit holes that cannot keep a Doctor long enough to say stick out your tongue We were at war in Iraq Afghanistan and god knows where else for a period of roughly 20 years and lost around 5000 troops, in the same period of time over 16000 vets committed suicide. FUCK YOU VA
I am totally pleased with the VA treatments and support.
I am totally pleased with all VA medical help I always recieve.
What are you gonna do about people who have suffer an unexpected over the top fag that you allowed to be over myself and others and he tricked a 18yr old into allowing him to put his dick inside my ducking ass and I haven’t had any life and now I’ma 54yr old male with a sex secret that Ill be taking to, my grave??? Mental health care needs to start b4 you have these power hungry homosexuals around 18yr o;d boys
Sorry for you having to go through this alone. I went through the same thing only with my commanding sergeant and had no one for support until 30 years later.. I I did not know I could even get help.
In such an enlightened era, it is incomprehensible that the VA has just now offered assistance to vets who have received psychological injuries as a result of their commitment and service in the protection of our citizens – not just idealogical lip service!
Thank you for your service should be more than just a contrived patriotic response. IF we, our government, doesn’t fully support the veteran victims – by fully addressing physical AND psychologist wounds of battle we are an immoral nation.
Our VA’s mission is not to deliver cost effective remedies – it’s imperative is to return veterans, as fully healed as possible, to society as quickly as possible.
Why is this new declaration of benefits reek of a magnanimous del-serving attempt to now award services which have been inherently available to veterans always?
If veterans have been denied the full extent of mental health services, this ”new” announcement, without any comment for the delay in the lack of its implementation for decades, is a cynical farce.
Why? Why now? Why not before? Who’s responsible for this delay in service?
The VA is a gargantuan organization whose impersonal rules and regulations have few mediation available for individual needs once a diagnosis is made by a doctor. The diagnoses are parsed for the largest category possible. This makes it easier for technical personnel to upload the information to the simplest common denominator.
Veterans suffer many different injuries. So when a doctor prescribes physical therapy for a back problem -OR- orders surgery both injuries are labeled- back injury- for the data input. Yet, the remedies are greatly different.
For years PTSD has lacked adequate medical attention.
For years our veterans with this injury, a many pronged disease, have been ill-served too frequently.
Hopefully, this great new VA announcement will fully serve our veterans, improving their lives and awarding them the respect and gratitude they have earned heroically!
I am the “dependent” spouse of a Navy Veteran who has struggled with the wounds received during the Vietnam police action
Viet Nam was not a police action it is and was a war!
Yes, it was a damn war, but politicians declared it as a police action. We all know it was not.
Day late and a dollar short.
the v.a system is broken
Suicide and depression co exist for veterans you can’t have one with out the other and I have all the symptoms so it’s not a matter of if it’s when.