It was once an “open secret” that this was the safest pathway.
Tag: Suicides and Suicide Attempts
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Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.
A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.
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Naomi Judd Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound, Her Daughter Says
The actress Ashley Judd said in a television interview on Thursday that her mother was suffering from mental illness when she died last month.
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Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
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‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For M, a 13-year-old in Minnesota, the despair was almost too much to take.