I wanted to share this article because I think Megan makes a good point. We often tell those suffering with mental health issues to “get help”, without also acknowledging how hard that really is. We compare it to a physical illness where, of course,people would ask for help, like asking family to assist us during…
So this is some positive news for the UK, even though there are still over 5,000 total per year, a shocking number for a country of that size. The overall news though, is a bit more of a mixed bag: “Collectively there’s been huge effort towards men and we’re starting to see the effects of…
I’m not going to quote from this post, because there’s just so much in it that you should read the whole thing, and because I couldn’t decide which part to quote. Chelise makes some strong points about how stigma gets in the way. How it creates a lack of research and funding into suicide prevention,…
This is really interesting. We should spend some time looking at the people who didn’t go through with it, and why. But some stories about suicide are hopeful: For every person who dies by suicide each year, another 280 people think seriously about suicide but do not kill themselves, according to data from the CDC…
I don’t know that I have a lot of readers in South Africa, but the quote from this article does go to show that this is a worldwide problem. Living in the US, and being connected to a number of folks from the UK and Australia, I may hear and read about it more in…
This is atrocious. Think about this for a second: “About half of people in the United States are estimated to have a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their lives. Whether we’re talking about major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, OCD, schizophrenia, or a host of other mental health conditions, this accounts for more than…
