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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: Understanding suicide
Description: Although cases of people serving in the armed forces taking their own lives are low – among men in the army the figures have been rising in recent years.Among some very specific groups of veterans the risk of suicide appears to be much higher – particularly younger men who only served a short time in the forces.As the government carries out research to understand why, BFBS Sitrep talks to a leading psychiatrist, a veteran with PTSD, and a campaigner who lost her husband to suicide about the true picture of suicide risks, how we can impr...