Suicide takes more military lives than combat, especially among women
“Women who are in these male-dominated settings in the military are trained to be strong, to push through,” said, associate professor in the School of Social Work at Temple University who published a report this year about women’s suicide in the military.
That was what ultimately pushed Taniki Richard to try to kill herself: the trauma of combat and a sexual assault that she never reported.“When I came back from Iraq, I started having nightmares of being raped, and then it being on the aircraft,” the Chesapeake, Va., retired Marine and mom said in“One day, it just became too much. I was under so much extreme stress and pain that I just wanted it to end,” she said, so she crashed a car into a light poleRichard survived.
“In intimate partner sexual violence women often feel stuck, it’s hard to find a way out, to see a way out,” said Dichter, whose research has included interviewing sexual assault survivors in the military who struggle with the duality of attackers being colleagues.
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