Jeff Lucey, was a USMC truck driver who was deployed to Iraq. According to his family members when Jeff came home everything appeared to be normal and even went back to school. His mother Joyce, said it wasn’t until a couple months after his homecoming that Jeff started to isolate himself more and he began drinking heavely, even showing up to his sisters graduation incoherent. In Joyces words, “he was falling apart before our eyes. I just didn’t know how to help”. Jeff did seek help at the VA near his house, but decided to leave the program early and according to Julie his girlfriend, “no one could convince him to go back to the VA”. Jeff did eventually seek help at the Hampton VA after an 11 month health decline, as he was hallucinating and hearing voices.
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In the case of Jeff and his family, I would say the stress was from an internal source, as the events came from inside the family. Even though his family noted throughout the video that Jeff was not himself, I believe the suicide was a catastrophic event, it was a non-normative stress event that wasn’t predicted (Boss, 2001). I also believe that the event was ambiguous, as one of his friends stated, “I feel guilty because I should have picked up on some signals”, which shows facts were unclear. The event was also nonvolitional, the family did not make a decision or plan for this to happen. I believe in the case of Jeff, the duration was chronic as the decline in his health, emotional well-being, and alcohol use occurred over a long period of time. Lastly, the stressor was cumulative, as the events leading up to Jeffs death piled up on each other one after another not allowing the family time to deal with the
In the case of Jeff and his family, I would say the stress was from an internal source, as the events came from inside the family. Even though his family noted throughout the video that Jeff was not himself, I believe the suicide was a catastrophic event, it was a non-normative stress event that wasn’t predicted (Boss, 2001). I also believe that the event was ambiguous, as one of his friends stated, “I feel guilty because I should have picked up on some signals”, which shows facts were unclear. The event was also nonvolitional, the family did not make a decision or plan for this to happen. I believe in the case of Jeff, the duration was chronic as the decline in his health, emotional well-being, and alcohol use occurred over a long period of time. Lastly, the stressor was cumulative, as the events leading up to Jeffs death piled up on each other one after another not allowing the family time to deal with the