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Holiday suicide myth
Shopping crowds, relatives, loneliness, never-ending expenses. These holiday stressors lead to a common misunderstanding that the suicide rate rises during the holiday season. However, it’s the months...
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Is it fair to link mental illness and violence?
Recent tragedies of mass shootings leave us trying to make sense of senseless acts. We want to know why, to restore our understanding of this world we live in and our safety within it. Are the people...
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It’s not just about guns
Vice President Joe Biden has announced a proposal that will improve the identification and treatment of mental disorders and prevent at-risk individuals from harming themselves or others. This plan...
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Lessons from Silver Linings Playbook
If you haven’t seen Silver Linings Playbook yet, go now! It’s a touching moving with important lessons nestled into its charming scenes. Director David O. Russell has a son with a mood disorder,...
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Let’s change the way we report on suicide
Suicide is in the news a lot – suicide bombers, bullied loners, gay teens, crazy maniacs shooting strangers and then themselves in “hari kari” fashion. I’m being extreme in these descriptions on...
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Best and worst things to say to someone in grief
Today would have been my brother’s 24th birthday. It is a rough time of the year for my family because we are facing both the anniversary of my brother’s death and his birthday back-to-back, separated...
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How to help someone who is depressed
When when you lose someone to suicide, hindsight can painfully present the warning signs that were missed. But in the moment that you are trying to help someone who is depressed, you feel overwhelmed...
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7 lies we tell ourselves about suicide
I hear many wildly incorrect statements about suicide; like how people who die by suicide are selfish, weak or must have come from a troubled home. Maybe it makes people feel better to pass judgment,...
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Your joke is not funny
This is for the people that pretend to shoot themselves in the head to express what they are feeling. And for the people that use phrases like “I could just kill myself” to make fun of a difficult...
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Our fear of being nosy
I sat down for dinner in a crowded restaurant, practically shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers at other tables. It was not hard to overhear conversations about how everyone survived their work week,...
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