Military Creator Con: Creator Conversations
Sep 17, 2026 · 13 min · 7 segments
PART 2 - SHOWNOTES Military Creator Con: "The Stories We Carry" series Episode Title: Breaking the Stigma Around Veteran Suicide Brief summary of show: Stigma around veteran suicide means the…
In your expertise and in the years that you've been doing what you've been doing, what has contributed the most to the stigma and to the way that we advocate for veterans and the support that they receive?
Thank you for having me and thank you for the question.
I think what contributes the most to stigma is lack of education.
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 hosts in the 90s, and then they think that that's it.
That's it to the knowledge that they have to have.
And I think as peers, as leaders, we don't have to be doctors.
Well, some of us are, but we don't have to be doctors to be able to educate ourselves, to learn a little bit more.
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.
Josh, I know you talk a lot about this and you advocate for that veteran support.
Yeah, it's a great question.
And again, thanks, Sean, everybody else on the panel.
It's a pleasure.
I know most of you personally, and if I don't, I know of you.
So I'm in a room full of very respected people.
So thank you.
Thank you very much for allowing me to be on here.
So I would say my situation and my experience is not unique in any sense.
What's unique is how I approach it.
And so I got out of the military.
In your expertise and in the years that you've been doing what you've been doing, what has contributed the most to the stigma and to the way that we advocate for veterans and the support that they receive?
Thank you for having me and thank you for the question.
I think what contributes the most to stigma is lack of education.
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 hosts in the 90s, and then they think that that's it.
That's it to the knowledge that they have to have.
And I think as peers, as leaders, we don't have to be doctors.
Well, some of us are, but we don't have to be doctors to be able to educate ourselves, to learn a little bit more.
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.
Josh, I know you talk a lot about this and you advocate for that veteran support.
Yeah, it's a great question.
And again, thanks, Sean, everybody else on the panel.
It's a pleasure.
I know most of you personally, and if I don't, I know of you.
So I'm in a room full of very respected people.
So thank you.
Thank you very much for allowing me to be on here.
So I would say my situation and my experience is not unique in any sense.
What's unique is how I approach it.
And so I got out of the military.
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