Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.
Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.
Leo Flowers
Dr. Michael Anestis: Guns and Suicide in the Military
56 minutes Posted Mar 13, 2023 at 7:00 am.
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We discuss:

  • What's the most challenging part of being a military service person?
  • What are the barriers to those in the military to seeking help?
  • How to improve gun safety
  • How to build a fulfilling a life outside of the military
  • What are "Behavioral Activations?"
  • How "Upstream thinking" can improve your life
  • Why "moral injury" is just as painful as a physical injury


Dr. Anestis bio:

Michael David Anestis is an American clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health in the Rutgers School of Public Health, as well as the executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center.

Contact: [email protected]

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