Please carefully consider your needs when reading the following information about suicide, suicidality and self-harm. This report may be distressing to some readers.
If this material raises concerns for you, support is available. Please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, or Defence All-hours Support Line on 1800 628 036, or Open Arms – Veterans and Families Counselling, available 24/7 to anyone who has served one day of continuous fulltime service in the ADF and their immediate families, or see other ways you can seek help.
The information included here places an emphasis on data, and as such, can appear to depersonalise the pain and loss behind the statistics. The AIHW acknowledges the individuals, families and communities affected by ADF member and veteran suicide, suicidality and self-harm each year in Australia.
The AIHW supports the use of the Mindframe guidelines on responsible, accurate and safe suicide and self-harm reporting. Please consider these guidelines before including any details of statistics on suicide methods in reports on suicide or self-harm.