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Fear of hospitalization keeps men from talking about suicide
Fear of psychiatric hospitalization is one of the primary reasons that older men — an age and gender group at high risk for suicide — don’t talk about suicide with their physicians. Researchers discovered this finding as part of a pre-launch, stakeholder assessment of a multimedia program designed to encourage men to open up to their primary care providers about suicidal thoughts.
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A slew of 911 calls from Amazon warehouses reportedly show employees in severe emotional distress and threatening suicide
Some Amazon employees are reportedly suffering from severe emotional distress on the job, according to a report in The Daily Beast.
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The Prodigy’s Keith Flint Dead at 49
“A true pioneer, innovator and legend. He will be forever missed,” band writes as member Liam Hewlett says he’s “shellshocked, fuckin angry, confused and heartbroken”
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The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality
Based on the information available online, Sendler could be one of the most accomplished 28-year-olds in medicine. But he’s not. Those are all lies.
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What our new study reveals about the genetics and biology of suicidal behaviour
More than three quarters of a million people take their own lives every year, to devastating personal, social and economic cost. Recent research has detailed the strong connection between suicide and mental illness, particularly depression. Past studies have also shown that those who have lost a relative this way are more likely to consider suicide.
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Viral 'Momo challenge' is a malicious hoax, say charities
Groups say no evidence yet of self-harm from craze, but resulting hysteria poses a risk
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Suicide instructions spliced into kids’ cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids
“Sideways for attention. Longways for results,” a man says in the middle of a cartoon.
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Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide
I did not want to die, only felt that I would, or should, or must, and I had my pain and my reasons.
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Kevin Hines Jumped Off the Golden Gate Bridge, and Survived
More than 1700 people are estimated to have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge since 1937. Kevin Hines attempted suicide at Golden Gate Bridge and survived. Now suicide prevention is his mission, including the creation of a Golden Gate Bridge suicide net.
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Ketamine Could Be the Key to Reversing America’s Rising Suicide Rate
A version of the club drug is expected to be approved for depression in March. Researchers think it could help treat suicidal thinking.
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Depression as Loss of Value
You wander through life as if half-awake, time passing by. Activities you used to enjoy are now trite, exhausting, and empty of meaning. You feel alienated from others, who now seem far away, belonging to an inaccessible, alternate world where happiness is still possible. You are pushed further into the dark, hateful place inside yourself, where your thoughts– abusive, apathetic, and pessimistic– swirl relentlessly: I hate myself, it’s all pointless, I want to die. From where you are, there seems to be no hope, no relief, no escape. You are depressed.
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Can It Be Right to Commit Suicide?
The Roman Catholic Church has long argued that one’s life is the property of God and thus that to commit suicide is to deride God’s prerogatives. The counterargument, by philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is that, if such is the case, then to save someone’s life is also to deride God’s prerogatives. Most religions share the Church’s belief in the sanctity of life, although a few have come to regard at least some suicides as honourable.
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Barriers to Mental Health Care for Mental Health Professionals
How do we help the helpers?
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Suicides in Japan down for 9th straight year to 37-year low in 2018
The number of suicides in Japan dropped 3.4 percent from a year earlier to 20,598 in 2018, down for the ninth year and the lowest in 37 years amid economic recovery, preliminary data by the National Police Agency showed Friday. The number of suicides per 100,000 people fell to 16.3, a record low since the survey began in 1978, but an increase of girls aged 19 or younger who killed themselves raised concern, according to the data.
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What are social media companies doing about suicidal posts?
Rapper CupcakKe was hospitalised this week after worrying tweets, highlighting the increasing frequency of posts that need urgent responses.
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‘Father, please stop’: Parents horrified after priest used teen’s funeral to condemn suicide
When Maison Hullibarger died by suicide on Dec. 4, his parents — devout Catholics — began planning a funeral that would celebrate their 18-year-old son’s life. He was a brother to five siblings, an athlete and teammate, a strong criminal justice student at the University of Toledo, and a passionate fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers. And because the priest at their Temperance, Mich., parish didn’t personally know their son, Jeffrey and Linda Hullibarger met with him before the funeral to discuss what they wanted in the homily.
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Can We Stop Suicides?
In May of 2017, Louise decided that her life was just too difficult, so she’d end it. In the previous four years, three siblings and a half-sibling had died, two from disease, one from fire and one from choking. Close friends had moved away. She felt painfully, unbearably alone. It would be the fourth time Louise (I’m using her middle name to protect her privacy), then 68, would attempt suicide, and she was determined to get it right.
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CDC says life expectancy down as more Americans die younger due to suicide and drug overdose
"We are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable," CDC director warns
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Does Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' influence teen suicide? Survey asks at-risk youths
A significant proportion of suicidal teens treated in a psychiatric emergency department said that watching the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" had increased their suicide risk, a University of Michigan study finds. The hit drama, widely popular among teens, has generated controversy for its depiction of suicide. Its story centers around a 17-year-old student, who, before her death, recorded cassettes that detail 13 reasons why she took her own life.
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Australian jailed for aiding wife's suicide
Graham Morant stood to receive A$1.4m (£770,000; $1m) from his wife's life insurance policy.
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