Reflection on Army Counseling

Studies indicate that a majority of war veterans suffer from various psychological issues like PTSD and that a huge percentage of them resort to committing suicide since they are not counseled on how to handle the aftermath of combat trauma. Nonetheless, I suggest that more studies should follow suit to reduce biasedness since a majority of the previous pieces of literature have been compiled by researchers who attained this data from medical practitioners rather than acquiring them from war veterans. I think that military personnel who come from conflict zones with serious injuries stand a high chance of developing PTSD as compared to those who return with minimal or no injuries. In actual sense, some of these veterans with serious injuries consider their lives as futile hence suicide become the ultimate solution.

Others develop PTSD due to preoccupations guilt. Therefore, when such individuals find access to these weapons, the can easily commit suicide and at times injure or kill any person who might be opposing their interned action. With this, I suggest that counseling in the army has to be a daily requirement. Be it for guiding a soldier’s mental and physical growth, correctional purposes or developing the career through the suggested milestones, it could be challenging, in the future, for the life of the soldier in terms of performance as well as potentiality to deal with life issues if counseling is not applied in the initial stages of the career. It is relatively hard for a normal person to have suicidal ideations.