VIDEO: More Officers Dying From Suicide Than Duty Deaths in 2017
After extensive research, a study by the Newton-based Ruderman Family Foundation found police officers and firefighters experience PTSD and depression at rates five times higher than the average public.
Researchers found 140 police officers committed suicide last year. By comparison, 129 police officers died in the line of duty, reports Boston 25 News.
"It's so deeply ingrained that they're the fixers and they don't need to be fixed," says Janice McCarthy, whose husband Capt. Paul McCarthy of the Massachusetts State Police suffered from PTSD and took his life in 2006. "That's a myth. Everyone needs to be fixed."
etymologynerd on October 18th, 2018 at 03:26 UTC »
If anybody wants the actual numbers but is too lazy to click the link:
This is so messed up.
Riothegod1 on October 18th, 2018 at 01:20 UTC »
Soldiers too.
“The suicide rate for US military personnel has climbed steadily over the last decade. Today it is nearly twice the national average” -Loading Screen, Spec Ops: The Line, 2012.
BoinkBoinkEtAliae on October 18th, 2018 at 01:16 UTC »
Any job that exposes you to unpredictable violence, death, and the shitty side of human abuse is going to have high rates of trauma, and if it isn't addressed correctly it can lead to suicide. Police, military personnel, social workers, firefighters, emergency personnel, journalists, critical-care nurses etc. all have high rates of PTSD.