[…] ailments such as these, approximately 4% of all visits are due to mental illness or substance use, including overdose, acute psychotic features, a panic attack or a suicide attempt. Unfortunately, emergency rooms — and even most hospitals — are not set up to adequately treat mental illness due to time constraints and stressful surroundings. […]
[…] Mental health education in schools should be as common as physical education. Our students, from elementary school through college, are struggling, and rates of mental illness and suicide among young people are far too high. Better mental health education for students and teachers could allow for early identification, referral to services and treatment. This […]
[…] are being taken advantage of. If I seek support from my fiancé, I should not guilt him into doing things or helping me by using my previous suicide attempts as a way to get what I want from him. This is manipulation, not support. Instead, I will reach out to him when I am […]
[…] country, especially in the Afghan Civil War. But, as I later came to learn, the Taliban hunting me daily, IEDs exploding all around me and mingling with suicide bombers isn’t thrilling at all. The horrors of war have lived with me long after I’ve left the battlefield. When I got back home, at first, […]
[…] traumas, intense loss, exposure to violence and a background of extreme poverty. Additionally, Hispanic/Latinx students are experiencing mental illness at increasing rates and struggle with thoughts of suicide up to eight times higher than their peers. Additionally, they are at a higher risk of trauma due to immigration and acculturation. Jaime argued that school […]
Up until four years ago, I was convinced that I would die by suicide. I made more than three serious suicide attempts that landed me in almost every emergency room or intensive care unit in Chicago. At times, my depression was so severe that I could not walk, sleep or eat. I was fired […]
[…] my son’s — were the deal breaker. My Son Has Had to Face the Consequences of Stigma In my book, I share that after my attempted suicide, doctors said I was in no shape to be a mother. At 16, my son moved to Utah to live with my husband’s brother to finish […]
[…] heard of it, but I was intrigued because I was not a stranger to mental illness. My maternal grandmother experienced debilitating depression for years, culminating in her suicide in 1939. My mother was diagnosed with depression and experienced what I believe was PTSD, following her own mother’s suicide. I had grappled with mental health […]
[…] of existence for eternity — but death was nevertheless frequently on my mind. It was not healthy. In the summer of 2015, I finally broke and attempted suicide. Only a seemingly random but well-timed phone call from my mom saved me from that fate. It was at that point that I knew that I […]
[…] a life-threatening challenge. The life expectancy of someone with schizophrenia is roughly two decades shorter than that of the general population, arguably due to the prevalence of suicide among people with the condition (specifically among those who do not seek help, fearing stigma and discrimination). Oftentimes, those who die by suicide are considered “high-functioning,” […]
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