Operation Vet Fit, is successfully implementing exercise prescription in combination with psychotherapy in the fight to stop veteran suicide.
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reminder to Exercise and Eat Healthy – We Were Warned
This pandemic is not an opportunity to separate the strong from the weak or the sick, lame and lazy from the overachievers. But it is an opportunity to look at how our lifestyle decisions impact not only our personal health, but the global economy and the entire human population as well. This is a collective human calling. A moment of nearly entire planetary awareness. An epiphany whereby we realize how our daily personal decisions impact the survival of the self and the entire human species. We were warned. Some of us have headed the warnings, others have chosen not to, and some are unfortunate victims of complex circumstances and unfortunate genetic predispositions.
Bright Side of the Pandemic: How Coronavirus is Helping US
Operation Vet Fit and the Citadel Military College Team Up To Investigate Impact of Exercise on Anxiety, Depression and Pain
Results from this pilot study show that CBEE may be a promising means for acutely reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression among combat veterans. Follow up studies with larger sample sizes are needed to further investigate the relationship between CBEE and acute and chronic symptoms of anxiety and depression, and subsequently, veteran suicide.
Marine Donates His Brain and Body to Research
Through Her Eyes: Perspectives of Military Spouses Married to Career Combat Veterans
They are the glue that holds together our national security and our social fabric. They raise, feed, guide, clean and dress our children when we go off to fight in our wars. But mostly, their existence is a continuous jolting of human emotions.
124 US Suicides A Day - How We Got Here, How To Fix It
27.7 veteran suicides per day and an overall national rate of 124.4 a day, according to the recently published 2019 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report from the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
The Prostitution of a Crisis
Operation Vet Fit has a challenge to all of the tax payer funded, pop-up agencies claiming to investigate the veteran suicide crisis. Stop prostituting the crisis and get something done!
Competitive Underwater Physical Exercise
Marijuana Vs. Pain, Anxiety and Depression
Operation Vet Fit is recruiting men and women over the age of eighteen to volunteer to participate in a ground breaking study on Marijuana. Interested participants may anonymously register for the study here. Study participants remain anonymous and identities remain confidential. Participants will utilize their own marijuana for the study. Marijuana will not be provided by our research team.
Study participants will be asked to complete a series of questions prior to and following their use of marijuana. The entire process take less than 1 hour to complete and can be done wherever the participant is most comfortable utilizing marijuana. Participants will be able to complete the study via computer or smart phone at any time following submission of this registration.
Upon submission of registration, participants will be provided with website links and passwords to anonymously complete the study.
Research Study: Veterans and Marijuana
Camaraderie Based Events Reduce Combat Veterans Anxiety and Depression
Veteran Suicide Research Poll
Did you serve with a veteran that later committed suicide?
Post Traumatic Growth - It's where we are headed next
PTSD and Veteran Suicide - We are kicking your ass!
Veterans Suicide Through the Prism of Cognitive Behaivoral Theories
EMDR for PTSD: A New Best Practice Has Emerged
What Caused "22-a-Day"? -
Medical Marijuana for PTSD - One Marines Story
Need for Suicide Research
CIR director discusses need for suicide research
Carl Castro, associate professor and director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families, participated in a suicide prevention podcast from the VA’s Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center. In the 30-minute podcast, Castro discussed his work in this field, including a recent journal article outlining when a veteran might be more prone to suicide, a first step in more effective prevention efforts.