Project Healing Waters has helped over 65,000 veterans since the organization launched in 2005, using an unlikely tool -- fly fishing -- as a means of therapy.
Project Healing Waters has helped over 65,000 veterans since the organization launched in 2005, using an unlikely tool -- fly fishing -- as a means of physical and emotional therapy for wounded soldiers.
"Yes, you might get hurt. Yes, you might die. Yes, you might have people that have lost lives. And I never thought it would happen to me because, I felt like you know, you're invincible whenever you're young," he explained of his injuries. "Is it your fault? Is it not your fault? And it all gets in your head."They really did do more therapy for me than the V.A. was actually able to give me.
The bottom line for all of this is increasing the mental health for our veteran community, in the hopes that we can reduce suicide.shows the average number of veteran suicides per day rose from 16.4 in 2001 to 17.5 in 2021.
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