Suicide

Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

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...

Fort Hood Killings: No Safe Place from Invisible Wounds of War

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


Christine Pelosi

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.

After Fort Hood: Count All the Dead

Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


Aaron Glantz

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.

Mental Illness Coverage Is Mixed

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media


Robert David Jaffee

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.

Suicide Prevention Groups Protest "The Office"

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...

Who Needs Marriage?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living


Philip N. Cohen

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.

Suicide Rate Doubles In Burbank

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...

Halloween Tragedy: Neighbors Thought Dead Man's Body Was Part Of Halloween Display

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...

Reflections on Suicide

Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books


Christopher Lukas

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?

Andrew Ward: Iraq War Veteran Opens Fire On Police In Lynn, Indiana

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. ...

Susan Klebold: Columbine Killer's Mom Writes Essay For Oprah's O Magazine; "No Inkling" Son Was Suicidal

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...

Meleanie Hain: Gun-Carrying Soccer Mom Killed By Husband In Murder Suicide, Police Say (VIDEO)

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...

Timothy Willgruber: Police Say Man Accused Of Accidentally Killing Identical Twin Has Killed Himself

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 ...

Depression Alert: Reading This Post May Just Help Save a Life

Chloe Spencer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living


Chloe Spencer

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.

Only in the Bizarro World

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics


B. Jeffrey Madoff

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.

Anne Morell Petrillo: Daughter Of Anne Scripps Douglas, Murdered Newspaper Heiress, Believed Dead After Jumping Off Tappan Zee Bridge

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | 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...

Bill Sparkman Murder: Tragic Details About Census Worker Found Hanged

Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...

Anna Nicole Smith: Pharmacists Warned Doctors That Prescriptions Were "Pharmaceutical Suicide"

AP | Posted 09.22.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith's internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son die...

8 Million Americans Consider Suicide

Yahoo | Associated Press | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living


More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the United St...

Rural mental-health funding doubtful, even as farm stress worsens

CO. Independent | CO Independent | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home


As stress in the farming sector rises across Colorado and nationwide, some mental health professionals are hoping the federal government will s...

Tough Guy Soprano Joey Pantoliano Goes to Iraq

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


Dr. Tian Dayton

Soldiers in Iraq face deployment after deployment without rest or time for recovery. They suffer from PTSD and depression.

How the Real Death Squads Work

Bryant Welch | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Bryant Welch

There is just one fact Americans need to know about our current health care system. Private health insurance companies make more money if they don't provide care than if they do.

Hell Hath No Fury: The Sodini Murder/Suicide

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living


Ruth Bettelheim

In Mr. Sodini's blog, he says repeatedly, "I have nothing to lose." He had nothing to lose because he (apparently) had no strong, affectionate bonds with anyone and never had.

Brooklyn Bridge Jump Survived

Brooklyn Heights Blog | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York


A distraught man kept police at bay for over 30 minutes last night as he threatened to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge. The drama unfolded shortly afte...

What to Wear to the Funeral?

Dana Perry | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment


Dana Perry

My son Evan was 15 and bipolar. We always kind of expected to outlive him, but didn't -- couldn't -- imagine, on that sunny October afternoon as we sat at lunch with him, laughing and joking, that it would be that very night.