Training the Community to Recognize and Respond to Crises
If you’re a first responder, teacher or local community service provider, becoming trained in suicide prevention can make a big impact on your community. It could even save someone's life.
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Enough is Enough: We Need to Prevent Campus Suicides
[…] has been one at Yale. And there have been three at George Washington University. But those are not just numbers, they are young lives recently lost to suicide—college students who should be launching into the prime of their lives but instead are gone. They were our sisters, brothers, children, friends, neighbors and the future […]
Can Social Media Save a Life?
[…] years ago, I was mindlessly scrolling through one of my accounts before going to bed and one post immediately stood out among the rest: It was a suicide note. Frantically, I read my friend Mark’s post. It detailed his internal suffering over the years, which he no longer wanted to endure. The comment section […]
The Unexpected Medical Bill
[…] “Why are you billing me for services from two years ago, which I paid for, for a person who is no longer alive, as he died by suicide?” Her immediate replies were not adequate. She blamed the insurance company and directed me to inquire with them. I deepened my voice, in a […]
5 Ways You Can Support Veterans’ Mental Health
[…] to military life, often our veterans experience mental health challenges such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury or depression. Here are five ways you can help support our veterans: Understand Suicide On average, 17 veterans a day die by suicide. In 2017, nearly one in every seven suicides nationally was a veteran—13.5% annually—compared with Census data that […]
Bipolar Depression: The Lows We Don’t Talk About Enough
[…] the depressive side to be a relief from the unpredictable highs. However, it’s during the lows that people with bipolar disorder are at the greatest risk of suicide. People with bipolar disorder experience high suicide rates — up to 19% of us die by suicide and up to 50% of us will make a […]
Teen Suicide Studies
Teen suicide is an often preventable tragedy. It is an appropriate focus of research and inquiry. Two new studies focused on the issue raise both important clinical and policy questions.
Department of Defense Releases Annual Report on Military Suicides
This month, the Department of Defense (DoD) released the 2019 edition of the annual DoD Suicide Event Report. The report provides statistics on suicide and suicide attempts among military populations as well as trends over time, risk factors, and utilization of treatment services. In 2019, the suicide mortality rate among active-component service members was 25.9 per 100,000 – nearly twice the general U.S population rate of 13.9 per 100,000. Suicide mortality rates have been steadily increasing among […]
The AAP and AFSP Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention: Opportunities to Support Youth and Families
In this webinar, experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will present the Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention and outline key strategies to prevent suicide in clinics and communities.
How Kate Spade’s Suicide Opened My Eyes to the Impact of Stigma
[…] I didn’t interact with anyone who could relate to my circumstances. One morning after my return home, I read that fashion icon Kate Spade had died by suicide. One of the many articles about her passing claimed that she had battled depression silently because she didn’t want to speak out and hurt her brand. […]