Can we identify people who are at high risk for ending their own lives and get them the help they need? The answer is Yes. We can.
Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact
NPR reported this morning on suicide clusters, where a group of peers, mostly teenagers, take their own lives in a relatively short period of time. In...
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of st...
Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
It's good to see public discussion about posttraumatic stress and concern for the health and welfare of our troops. But I don't think the events at Fort Hood had anything to do with posttraumatic stress.
Christopher Lukas | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
It comes around every year -- the Saturday before Thanksgiving is the day Congress has called National Survivors of Suicide Day.
Martin Varsavsky | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology
Is leading a real time online life a risk? Are we safer or less safe if we frequently blog, use Twitter, Facebook, and Google Latitude?
Therese Borchard | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books
Here I am. With my mission: to educate folks about mental illness and to offer support to those who, like myself, suffer from mood disorders.
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. In Elkhart, Ind., coroner...
Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
The most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 11 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
I too have experienced delusions on an airplane. Though I have tamed my one-time diagnosis of schizophrenia, I did show psychotic symptoms earlier in the year when I was switching medication.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Some suicide prevention groups aren't laughing over a scene in "The Office" where Steve Carell's character tries to scare young child...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A twofold increase in suic...
latimes.com | Seema Mehta and Martha Groves | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
The body of Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, an apparent suicide, sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifel...
Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books
The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?
AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
LYNN, Ind. — An ex-Marine who served in Iraq has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a police officer after firing on police. ...
AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
DENVER — In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son wa...
The Associated Press | Mark Scolforo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Home
LEBANON, Pa. - A soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her h...
AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a man accused of killing his identical twin brother in a parallel parking accident has ...
Chloe Spencer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
Be aware of all your friends and family, because they may be suffering from severe depression, and it's just bottled up inside them and invisible to others.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Households with guns are 11 times more likely to use those guns to commit suicide than for self defense. But to be fair, we don't just kill ourselves, we kill others, a lot.
AP | Posted 11.26.2009 | New York
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — New York state police believe the daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas jumped to her death from the same b...
Lisa Firestone | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living