Suicides and Suicide Attempts
Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.
To back its position, the W.H.O. highlights stark words from Thomas R. Insel, who from 2002 to 2015 was head of the National Institute of Mental Health, the largest funder of mental-health research in the world: “I spent 13 years at N.I.M.H. really pushing on the neuroscience and genetics of mental disorders, and when I […]
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Naomi Judd Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound, Her Daughter Says
When Naomi Judd, the Grammy-winning country music singer, died last month, her daughter Ashley Judd said that she had lost her mother to the “disease of mental illness.” On Thursday, Ms. Judd was more candid, saying in a television interview that her mother had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her home in Tennessee, […]
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Alabama Officer Vicky White Dies and Escapee Is Caught, Officials Say
A national manhunt for a former corrections officer and the Alabama inmate she helped to escape last month ended Monday after a police pursuit resulted in a crash in Indiana, the authorities said. The former officer fatally shot herself, and the inmate surrendered, they said. The former officer, Vicky White, had been on the run […]
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‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
How the reporter Matt Richtel spoke to adolescents and parents for this series In mid-April, I was speaking to the mother of a suicidal teenager whose struggles I’ve been closely following. I asked how her daughter was doing. Not well, the mother said: “If we can’t find something drastic to help this kid, this kid […]
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New York State Supreme Court Judge Dies by Suicide
A New York State judge whose home was searched by law enforcement authorities last month against the backdrop of the federal prosecution of one of his former clients killed himself on Tuesday, one of his lawyers said. The judge, John L. Michalski, an acting justice of the State Supreme Court, was found dead at his […]
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Many Teens Report Emotional and Physical Abuse by Parents During Lockdown
New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on adolescents’ mental health during the coronavirus pandemic suggests that for many teenagers who were ordered to stay at home, home was not always a safe place. A nationwide survey of 7,705 high school students conducted in the first half of 2021 built on earlier […]
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Family’s Balcony Death in Switzerland Appears to Be Suicide
The four members of a French family who were found dead at the bottom of an apartment building in a Swiss resort town last week appear to have jumped off a balcony, “one after the other,” as part of a group suicide, the Swiss police said. The police said on Tuesday that their investigation suggests […]
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Cancer Patients Are at High Risk of Depression and Suicide, Studies Find
One day years ago, during her training in neurology, Dr. Corinna Seliger-Behme met a man with end-stage bladder cancer. Before the diagnosis, the man had a stable family and job, and no history of mental health problems, Dr. Seliger-Behme recalled. But, soon after learning of his terminal disease, he tried to kill himself with a […]
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A General Fights to Destigmatize Mental Health Issues: ‘There’s a Shame if You Show Weakness’
WASHINGTON — Maj. Gen. Ernest Litynski has received numerous awards and decorations during his nearly three decades in the Army. But he is best known among soldiers and his superiors for his campaign to illuminate mental health issues among troops, scraping away bit by bit at the stigma that often leads to tragedy. In meetings […]
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