Women Who Live with Gun Owners More Likely to Take Their Own Life
A woman’s risk of dying by suicide was more than 40% higher after another adult in her household became a handgun owner, according to a retrospective cohort study of 9.5 million women. Rates of suicide were 1.43 times higher (95% CI 1.11-1.84) among women living with handgun owners compared with those living in handgun-free homes. […]
What Age Group Is the Most Suicidal? Risk Factors, Prevention
The highest suicide rates are seen among teenagers and young adults between the ages of 10 to 35 years old. Suicide is causing fatal self-injury to take one’s own life to escape from pain or suffering. Suicide is seen among all age groups, but the highest suicide rates are seen among teenagers and young adults […]
What Not To Say To Someone Who Doesn’t Want To Be Alive Anymore
When it comes to suicide, we often operate from crisis mode. A lion’s share of the education around suicide prevention assumes that someone is actively harming themselves or on the verge of making a deadly decision. The reality is that suicidality exists on a spectrum. There’s an under-discussed gray area where people are struggling with […]
I Was A Gay Boy Who Tried To Kill Myself. Now I Know It Wasn’t My Fault.
I was 10 years old when I first attempted suicide. Thankfully, I did not succeed. But over the years that followed, I would try to end my life at least a half dozen more times. I wasn’t alone. Recent findings from the Trevor Project show that 42% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in […]
Global Suicides Rise; Outgrowing ADHD; A 40-Year Soda Addiction
Over the past 30 years, global suicide deaths rose by almost 20,000, with most countries seeing the highest suicide rates in people ages 70 and older. (Injury Prevention) The FDA cleared BrainsWay’s Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) system for anxious depression, the company announced. The TMS system was already indicated for major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive […]