This tip card includes possible reactions, emotions, and conditions that can lead to suicidal thoughts and behavior. It includes information on warning signs that may indicate that a soldier is suicidal and factors that raise the risk of the individual’s becoming suicidal.

Designed for mental health professionals and researchers, this online fact sheet provides information about trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicide. It presents suicide statistics, identifies types of trauma associated with increased risk of suicide (e.g., military sexual trauma), explores research on whether PTSD increases suicide risk, and highlights types of treatment for PTSD that may also lower risk for suicide.

This tip sheet discusses the mental health effects of drought on rural populations, how to recognize stress and depression, and suicide warning signs.

After a disaster or other potentially traumatic event, emergency medical services (EMS) providers may encounter people with suicidal thoughts or behaviors. This 8-page information and tip sheet guides EMS providers in reducing the risk of suicide among those they serve, responding to people who have attempted suicide, and supporting survivors of suicide loss.