(HealthDay News) — American military veterans attending college are far more likely to entertain thoughts of suicide than fellow students who have never been in the military, a new national survey indicates. Data from the poll paints a grave picture of these students’ mental health: Nearly half of all vets currently in higher education say [...]
HealthDay News — U.S. emergency department visits for drug-related suicide attempts by young adult males rose 55 percent between 2005 and 2009, a government report says.”The misuse of prescription drugs is clearly helping to fuel the problem,” said Pamela S. Hyde, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA, which published the [...]
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Austin Mueller would have turned 20 on June 15, but on that day, his grieving mother likely will relive the horrors of May 5, 2010, when her son brought a lifelong struggle with depression to a quiet coda by committing chemical suicide in a college parking lot. Although he tried to hide his intentions from [...]
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There is something about a first friend that is irreplaceable. No matter how disparately your lives travel, the first friend you ever had occupies a special place in your heart. I was lucky that Michael was considerate enough to be born four months before me, waiting next door, ready to join me in elaborate childhood [...]
It’s a sad and serious byproduct of the seemingly never ending recession: a possible spike in suicides. A new report issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the overall suicide rate rises and falls with the state of the economy — dating all the way back to the Great Depression. [...]
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
(HealthDay News) — A new survey finds that 20 percent of U.S. adults — over 45 million people — experienced mental illness in the past year. Overall, 4.8 percent (11 million people) suffered serious mental illness, 8.4 million people had serious thoughts of suicide, 2.2 million made suicide plans, and one million attempted suicide, according [...]
(HealthDay News) — There appears to be no difference among antidepressants in raising a kid’s risk of suicidal thoughts, a new long-term study shows. The research supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision in 2004 to mandate a “black box” warning on all antidepressants for an increased suicidality risk in children and adolescents who [...]
Suicide, the third leading cause of death among 15-24 year olds according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC), has been in the news several times in the last year due to suicide “clusters” at Cornell University and in California and Pennsylvania. A suicide cluster is defined by the CDC as “a [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
We often hear that suicide rates are highest during the holidays. I even heard a character in a Christmas TV movie warn about the risk during the last holiday season. Seems to make sense, in a way. After all, the holiday season even has its own syndrome – the holiday blues. Many people are stressed [...]
