Footnotes

• Contributors The author is the sole contributor to the commentary.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests The author is employed as the Forces in Mind Trust Professor of Veterans and Families Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, the author was a Royal Air Force Reserve Medical Officer and the author has been affected by suicide in a first-degree relative.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.