increased suicide riskQuestions: 1. Causes of suicidal incidents in military collectives. 2. Suicide prevention among military personnel. One of the major problems for the Armed Forces is suicide incidents. They have a demoralizing effect on the personnel, negatively affect the moral climate of military collectives and their combat readiness, and cause a sharply negative attitude towards the army on the part of parents, civil society and conscripted youth. Can such tragedies be prevented? Military practice gives a positive answer to this question. According to experts of the World Health Organization, the changes taking place in Eastern Europe in recent years, and especially in Russia, have led to unexpectedly serious consequences in the mental state of the population. Our country is experiencing a real epidemic of psychosomatic diseases, one of the main manifestations of which is suicide syndrome. So, at present, the number of suicides in Russia is 2 - 2.5 times higher than the critical level. But a century ago, the number of suicides in our country was the lowest among European countries. What is the reason for this state of affairs? To a large extent, the current situation in the country is due to an increase in the number of people suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, reactive states, neuroses, mental disorders of childhood and adolescence, etc., in the emergence and development of which socio-economic factors play an important role. They contribute to the spread of disillusionment, nihilism, disbelief in the future, spiritual ill health of society, and various forms of social deviations. Thus, the suicidal phenomenon is a stable social phenomenon that obeys certain laws related to the socio-economic, cultural, historical and ethnic levels of development of a country or region. It becomes clear why the command of a particular military unit is not always able to influence the initial causes of suicide. But to minimize suicidal incidents, as military p ... Read more