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Suicide rates among Army soldiers increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to a recent report published in Injury Prevention. In the last several years, the number of soldiers returning from the Middle East with mental and physical wounds has continued to climb. According to Dr. Simon Rego, a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center, "Unlike any other time in history, U.S. military suicide rates now appear to have surpassed those among comparable civilian populations. It is therefore critical that we address this emerging public-health problem."

You've heard that behavior is dictated by your brain orientation. Either you're right-brained or left-brained. If you're right-brained, you're creative. If you're left-brained, you're technical. Or so it may seem. Until he entered extreme grief after the death of his wife—his true love—John Lodal believed that was true.