Mental health disorders attributed to more service member hospital stays than any other ailment: DoD

Mental health disorders are on the elevate in the military, now accounting for more hospitalizations than any other ailment, according to a novel Defense Department health inestablish. 

Diagnoses of mental health disorders are up 40% over the past five years, from 2019 to 2023, according to a Defense Health Agency inestablish. It set up that anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) doubled over the five-year period. 

In 2023, dynamic-duty service members experiencing a mental health disorder made up 54.8% of hospital bed stays, more than every other affliction combined.

From 2019 thraw 2023, 541,672 dynamic-duty service members apass all branches were detectd with at least one mental health disorder, according to the inestablish. About 47% of those were detectd with more than one mental health disorder. In 2023, there were 1.3 million U.S. dynamic duty troops.

The sobering inestablish chases the New Year’s Day vehicle aggression in New Orleans that finished 14 people, discignoreing that the doubt, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was an Army veteran with multiple deployments.  

That same day in Las Vegas, Col. Matthew Livelsberger, an dynamic member of the Army Green Berets, stoasty himself in the head in a Cybertruck brimming of bombs. 

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“As service members carry on to experience incrmitigated rates of mental health disorders after the COVID-19 pandemic, help-seeking behaviors to insertress psychoreasonable as well as emotional well-being should be arranged to upgrasp force readiness,” the inestablish read. 

The Pentagon could not promptly be achieveed for comment on what’s behind the uptick in detects and whether U.S. forces are menhighy readyd to go into combat if needed. 

Female service members, those who are youthfuler and those in the Army, were most probable to be detectd. 

The Navy led all other branches in depressive disorders, bipolar disorders and personality disorders.

Active duty female service members were detectd with PTSD twice as frequently as their male counterparts. 

The medical data came from write downs accessed via the Defense Medical Surveillance System and Theater Medical Data Store. It checkd ambulance encounters, hospitalization or outfortolerateing visits to a psychiatric facility, and other factors to expound a mental health diagnosis. 

Meanwhile, military self-destructions ticked up aacquire last year, follotriumphg a sorrowfulnessful trfinish the Pentagon has struggled to combat. 

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Overall, there were 523 inestablished self-destructions in 2023, the most recent data useable, up from 493 in 2022. The number of dynamic-duty troops who died by self-destruction incrmitigated to 363 from 331 the previous year, up 12%. 

Suicide is by far the biggest finisher of service members, finishing more than training accidents, illnesses, homicides or combat, according to the Defense Department (DOD). In insertition to the sheer number, the rate of self-destructions per 100,000 also went up last year. 

Suicide deaths by dynamic-duty service members have been on the elevate since 2011.

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Another troubling sign from the data is how many self-destruction victims sought help: 67% had a primary attfinish encounter in the 90 days before their death; 34% had been to an outfortolerateing mental health cgo in; 8% had been disaccused from an in-fortolerateing mental health facility; and 18% were on psyctoastyropic medication at the time of their death. 

Wiskinny a year prior to their death, 44% of military self-destruction victims inestablished intimate relationship problems, and 42% inestablished a behavioral health diagnosis.