Tackling Wicked Problems: Suicide in the US Military
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Diptee, Darryl
Baker, Jason
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Military suicide
mental health
social crisis
chronic emotional atrophy
CEA
depression
neurology
veteran
wicked problem
frontal lobe stimulation
FLS
frontal lobe damage
FLD
information system solution
Emotional Vitality Assistant
EVA
mental health
social crisis
chronic emotional atrophy
CEA
depression
neurology
veteran
wicked problem
frontal lobe stimulation
FLS
frontal lobe damage
FLD
information system solution
Emotional Vitality Assistant
EVA
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2013-05
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Every 24 hours a member of the United States (US) Armed Forces commits suicide, while every hour a US veteran takes his own life. These statistics illuminate a deeply-rooted social crisis which eludes experts and military leaders to this day. Billions of dollars invested in suicide prevention seem to offer little relief for active duty servicemen and veterans alike. Military suicide is framed as a wicked problem and the new and exciting theory of Chronic Emotional Atrophy (CEA) is proposed to help explain causes of suicidal ideation in the military. A holistic crisis management strategy via information systems is presented in this work. Depressive symptoms exhibited by military members in emotionally suppressed environments closely parallel those phenomena exhibited by medical patients suffering from frontal lobe damage. The prospective psychiatric information system solution provides frontal lobe stimulation (FLS) to mitigate CEA and suicidal ideation.
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Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference – Baden-Baden, Germany, May 2013, T. Comes, F. Fiedrich, S. Fortier, J. Geldermann and T. Müller, eds.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.