This video is the second in the "Connect to Protect" series, in which Soldiers tell their individual stories in struggling with behavioral health challenges, their road to recovery, and methods and best practices to attain and maintain resiliency throughout their lives. Speaking on request of anonymity, "Daphne" divulges the multitude of traumatic events that fostered her suicidal ideations, and eventually, her suicidal attempts. Moreover, she tells the audience how she found the willpower and the motivation to overcome her past traumas and to keep moving forward with her support systems and revitalized outlook in life.
Army Reserve Capt. Oliver Pedraga, the suicide prevention program manager of the Pinellas Park, Florida-based Army...
