Defense Secretary wants to break new ground understanding the human mind

[sad sally]

Just when you thought he was breaking new ground figuring out ways to secretly drone people and how to spend more on weapons and such, we learn he wants to get into our minds.

Hide the kids, get in the storm cellar.

Yes, suicide is a very serious problem, but can we really trust this guy's motives? Seems it's a plan to say that a decade plus of war isn't to blame - that non-military people kill themselves too. sorry, but I just don't trust the guy...
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday promised a new focus on suicide prevention by military leaders, not just to benefit troops and veterans but also the country as a whole.

“My long-term goal is for the Department of Defense to be a game-changing innovator in this field,” he said during remarks at an annual interagency suicide prevention conference. “Just as we helped foster the jet age, the space race and the Internet, I want us to break new ground in understanding the human mind.”

Panetta was the third Cabinet official to speak at the three-day conference, designed to bring the nation’s top mental health experts together to discuss research and solutions to the growing problem of military and veterans suicides.

But officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon framed the problem not simply as an outgrowth from a decade of war but also as a serious national mental health crisis.

http://www.stripes.com/news/panetta-suicide-problem-goes-far-beyond-combat-veterans-1.181079

[MADem]

1. Any research is helpful.

Certainly war has played a role, anyone suggesting otherwise isn't dealing in the real world. However, in the past, even in peacetime, the Services have gone through spates and clusters of suicides--are they random? Were they caused by any changes in training, selection, other criteria?

The more research the better, IMO.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. This is part of a NATIONAL initiative to help prevent suicide.

it started over ten years ago.

Here an article on suicide in san diego in general

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/8862

and an ok article on wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Suicide_Prevention_Lifeline

There is also quite a bit of academic work, and you should know the VA is actually seen as a model and early adopter.

[patrice]

3. If this weren't about suicide & the lack of "human intelligence" that resulted in the Invasion and

Occupation of an INNOCENT nation known as Iraq . . . it would almost be funny.

[Wilms]

4. Put an end to these pointless military assaults.

Problem solved.

[EFerrari]

5. What is the Pentagon doing interfering with public policy?

Hmm?

[gsosbee]

6. Freedom Fighters control their Own Minds

Understanding the human mind: I am on the fbi kill list & the cia disparate enemy list; so are all who love liberty and despise mass murderers.
Drones symbloize the immediate threat to humanity.

Pls see report on democracy & mankind, followed by my reports in the links below.Thanks.

"means of information war threaten democracy and mankind "
http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/



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