Bryon Gustafson

It's 34 veterans that kill themselves per every 100,000.

No, that's nationally.

Those are national.

And then per a 2021 report specific to Montana in the veteran population, it's 51.

Three times the national average of veterans that kill themselves per 100,000.

Well, Montana's already on the suicide belt, too.

And so there's a group of states that kind of runs north to south, and generally they have the highest rates of suicide.

So we're already in that.

I think, I'm not sure.

Seasonal depression disorder, or SAD.

What is the acronym for that?

It was light.

I think it has a lot to do with that.

Yeah, so there's your suicide belt.

Another thing, too, is Montana has one of, if not the highest veteran population, 10% of our population is veteran.

And so I think those will contribute to that higher suicide rate as well.

But, yeah, isolation's a big part of it, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, so we get, that's a good question.

We get kind of veterans from all different communities, which is always kind of neat.