Military Creator Con: Creator Conversations
Sep 10, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 10 segments
Suicide awareness and prevention means catching the moments before a crisis, not just responding after one, and this roundtable makes the case that stigma, isolation, and a backwards VA resource model…
Leah StilesPanelist
I think that people, you know, make a lot of assumptions around mental health, around suicide prevention, and even my specialty, eating disorders.
They see things on the Lifetime channel in the 80s, on the talk show host on the 90s, and then they think that that's it.
Well, some of us are, but we don't have to be doctors, right, to be able to educate ourselves, to learn a little bit more online.
about what's really impacting each other, what that really means, what it really looks like, what it doesn't look like.
Because when there's so much taboo around things and things just get loosely said, I think that's where that stigma builds and we have to be able to challenge it and talk about it.
yeah josh i know you talk a lot about this and you advocate for that veteran support where did that come from talk about the stigma talk about the the advocacy that that you've been able to build
So I would say, you know, my situation and my experience is not unique in any sense.
And what I say is, The military is really good at making you and molding you into what they want you to be, but they don't do a great job of helping you turn off that when you reacclimate back into civilian life, essentially what it is.
And so I thought personally, when I left the military, I said, Hey, you know, maybe I just didn't get what I needed out of the TAPS program or the transition program.
that I really came to the conclusion that we have what I've coined or maybe not have coined, it's probably out there.
I think that people, you know, make a lot of assumptions around mental health, around suicide prevention, and even my specialty, eating disorders.
They see things on the Lifetime channel in the 80s, on the talk show host on the 90s, and then they think that that's it.
Well, some of us are, but we don't have to be doctors, right, to be able to educate ourselves, to learn a little bit more online.
about what's really impacting each other, what that really means, what it really looks like, what it doesn't look like.
Because when there's so much taboo around things and things just get loosely said, I think that's where that stigma builds and we have to be able to challenge it and talk about it.
yeah josh i know you talk a lot about this and you advocate for that veteran support where did that come from talk about the stigma talk about the the advocacy that that you've been able to build
So I would say, you know, my situation and my experience is not unique in any sense.
And what I say is, The military is really good at making you and molding you into what they want you to be, but they don't do a great job of helping you turn off that when you reacclimate back into civilian life, essentially what it is.
And so I thought personally, when I left the military, I said, Hey, you know, maybe I just didn't get what I needed out of the TAPS program or the transition program.
that I really came to the conclusion that we have what I've coined or maybe not have coined, it's probably out there.
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