suicide Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:28:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 suicide Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Suicide Prevention https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/suicide-prevention/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/suicide-prevention/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:48:50 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=20507 10 USEFUL* things you can do for suicide prevention *Spoiler: none of these things are about “fixing” a suicidal person. I’d like to apologize for missing the actual National Suicide Prevention Day, which was September 10, but, really, any day is a good day to talk about suicide prevention.  Suicide prevention is not a matter of telling your distressed friend ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/suicide-prevention/feed/ 0 20507 Suicide: The Enigma https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/suicide-the-enigma/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/suicide-the-enigma/#respond Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:25:54 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=19159 Suicide remains a sad mystery in many ways.  Those left behind can never really know what was in their loved one’s mind at the last.  We blame ourselves, and we deal with all the guilt, anger and grief that the act leaves behind, but we can never completely understand what leads someone to take their own life. Willa Goodfellow, in ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/suicide-the-enigma/feed/ 0 19159 Deaths of Despair – Suicide & Self Injury Crisis in US https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/deaths-of-despair-suicide-self-injury-crisis-in-us/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/deaths-of-despair-suicide-self-injury-crisis-in-us/#respond Sat, 09 Jun 2018 17:51:21 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=15144 The news of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade’s death by suicide as well as the CDC’s report on increasing suicide rates in the US reminds us of a larger public health crisis that was given the name “deaths of despair” by researchers Case and Deaton (see below). We have been collecting information on this topic in preparation for an effort ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/deaths-of-despair-suicide-self-injury-crisis-in-us/feed/ 0 15144 The Suicide Epidemic https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/the-suicide-epidemic/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/the-suicide-epidemic/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2017 03:16:16 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=14818 The post The Suicide Epidemic appeared first on Gateway Psychiatric.

]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/the-suicide-epidemic/feed/ 0 14818 Where is the Outrage About Suicide? https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/where-is-the-outrage-about-suicide/ Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:26:00 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=11944 A wonderful editorial in JAMA Psychiatry highlights the overwhelming evidence that stigma is continuing to drive underfunding for treatment and prevention of suicide deaths. Suicide and “accidental” overdose deaths are an epidemic in this country. Since 1999, the rate of suicide deaths increased by 28.2%, and this probably underestimates the increase because there is evidence that coroners are categorizing more and ...

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]]> 11944 Lithium Prevents Suicide https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/lithium-prevents-suicide/ Thu, 12 May 2016 20:18:49 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=10689 This has been a year with lots of useful information highlighting the continued importance of some of the oldest treatments for bipolar disorder: lithium salts. A New York Times Magazine article (“I Don’t Believe in Good but I Believe in LIthium”) about bipolar focused on lithium, and another New York Times article a year before that asked the question “Should We ...

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]]> 10689 Self Injury is the 8th Leading Cause of Death https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/self-injury-is-the-8th-leading-cause-of-death/ Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:08:02 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9229 Self injury (including suicide) is the 8th leading cause of death in this country. It is time to do something about it. An article just published online in the prestigious journal JAMA Psychiatry makes us drawn case that our fascination with trying to come up with clear answers to questions that may ultimately be impossible to answer (what a person’s ...

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]]> 9229 Lithium Benefits for Health – NYT Article https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/lithium-benefits-for-health-nyt-article/ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:04:12 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8125 Does lithium have benefits for health when it is found at small doses in the water? This is the subject of a recent article in the New York Time (september 13th, 2014). The article captured the attention of many readers of this blog and the companion one I write about mood disorders (moodsurfing.com). It was tantalizingly entitled,”Should We All Take a Bit ...

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