Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Joanna nursed her husband, Adam, through crippling depression for years before he killed himself. Only then did she discover his terrible secret. He had a string of lovers that he was secretly seeing behind her back.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
GOVERNMENT PLANS to cut suicide rates in the State by 20 per cent over a five-year period will not be achieved as a result of a funding shortfall, a Fianna Fáil Senator has said.
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | yesterday
As I noted in February, the FDA issued an advisory to doctors on data showing an increase in suicidality in patients taking anti-seizure drugs such as Depakote and Lamictal, drugs commonly used in treating bipolar disorder and epilepsy. Now the...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
Women are believed to be carrying out attacks to avenge the deaths of loved ones, counter depression, or atone for previous actions.
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
There's a long piece in this week's New York Times Sunday Magazine pondering why people commit suicide and, in particular, how society can limit impulsive suicides. It's an OK article, but I'm pondering why the mag even ran the piece...
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Id (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Clark Williams-Derry: Does where we live shape how we think and act? This isn't the sort of thing I blog about regularly, but it strikes me that...
Rants From The Rookery (Free subscription) | yesterday
One soldier at a time: In 2007, at least 115 active-duty soldiers and National Guard and Reserve troops committed suicide, the highest rate since the Army began keeping records in 1980. IAVA estimates that between 30 percent and 40 percent of returning war veterans will face “serious mental health injury” — especially post-traumatic stress disorder — and that those numbers are exacerbated by long tours...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
Janice says she still isn’t getting the help she needs even after bulimia, a suicide bid and worsening mental illness.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
GPs should get training to to identify if patients have forms of depression which may lead to suicide, Senator Mary White urged today.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
As the holiday weekend drew to a close, science fiction fans were saddened as the news spread online: Thomas M. Disch had died Friday morning , an apparent suicide. Speculation concerning his motive centered on prolonged depression following the death of his life partner, Charles Naylor , in 2004, and the fear that he was about to be evicted from his Manhattan apartment; his final LiveJournal entries...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Editor & Publisher: PINEHURST, N.C. A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war has died of an apparent overdose, police said. Joseph Patrick Dwyer died last week at a hospital in Pinehurst, according to the Boles Funeral Home. He was [...]
Power Line (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Dominic Puiu writes from Bondi Junction, NSW, Australia in response to our posts here and here about the University of Leicester national Happiness Index and the pseudonymous Spengler's computation of national happiness based on plotting fertility rates versus suicide rates. Mr. Puiu comments: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the suicide rates in Australia is just above 11 per 100,000...
This is Jersey (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
AN independent review is to be launched into the care of a father-of-two who committed suicide following years of depression. … [visit site to read more]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
ACCORDING TO figures provided by the Department of Justice, some 305 gun licences were granted in a 12-month period to mid-2005. This increased almost six-fold to 1,787 in the corresponding period ending in 2008.
SLAM Online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
I’m fairly certain that the suicide rate in the greater Bay Area would spike sharply were this to happen. © Marcel Mutoni for SLAM Online , 2008. | Permalink | 5 comments Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under NBA , Other News .
