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Can Using Singulair For Asthma Make You Kill Yourself?

HEALTH WARNING – Nov. 24, 2024 - A new study on a drug widely prescribed for asthma is binding itself to receptors in the brain and is linked to severe mental health issues and suicide. The following are some of the ... Read More...

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Ozempic Linked to a Higher Rate of Suicidal Thoughts

PLEASE WEIGHT – Aug. 22, 2024 - The medication, semaglutide, is sold by the the Danish pharma giant in the United States as Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss. The study raises additional concerns over a... Read More...

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Rehab Workers Seek Back Pay after Bosses Double Suicide

TURMOIL & CHAOS – July 3, 2024 - Those abrupt closures coincided with the suicides of two corporate executives in five days; the stiffing of hundreds of employees on their latest biweekly paychecks; the ma... Read More...

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2nd Drug Rehab Exec Dies by Suicide – 160 Employees & Patients Left Scrambling

TRAGEDY – June 26, 2024 - (CEO Peter Schorr, CAO Scott Korogodsky: Both found dead in less than a week.) Chaos and uncertainty at the parent company of one of New Haven’s largest drug rehab clinics have left 160 work... Read More...

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‘The Bear’ Tackles Themes On Alcoholism, Anxiety & Suicide

TV WORTH WATCHING – June 3, 2024 - “The Bear” is so harrowing that one of the two best episodes of the season, “Fishes,” covers a past holiday dinner with Carmy and his dysfunctional family, including his brot... Read More...

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Two-time PGA Tour Winner Died of Suicide

REST IN PEACE – May 26, 2024 - “Why was I drunk? Because I’m a (expletive) alcoholic that hates everything to do with the PGA Tour life and that’s my scapegoat.” He also accused the tour of not giving him prop... Read More...

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Eva Evans Left Suicide Note

VIDEO – TOO MUCH, TOO SOON? – April 23, 2024 - Eva was known on TikTok for posting day-in-the-life type content about 20-somethings in New York ... and she also famously created a web series called ‘Club Rat’ ... Read More...

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Reports of Depression and Suicide After Taking Weight Loss Drugs

VIDEO – SMALLER COFFINS? – April 16, 2024 - “I have zero doubt that this drug caused me to be suicidal and I almost lost my life from it,” Etheridge said, referring to semaglutide, the active ingredient in the... Read More...

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The Ripple Effects of Overdose Deaths

FAMILIES NEED LOVE – Feb. 21, 2024 - When someone overdoses and dies, surviving loved ones can feel as if they’ve been thrown into a crater of grief. Athey, a clinical psychologist and suicide prevention expert, said... Read More...

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Preventing Suicide: The Power of Resilience and Positive Emotions

HOLDING HANDS OF COMPASSION – Nov. 17, 2023 - To understand how positive emotions build resilience, it helps to know a little bit about the biology of emotions. When we experience an emotion, whether positive ... Read More...

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I Loved My Alcoholic Dad – But He Died Alone

ESSAY – Sept. 3, 2023 - She had to be strong and resolute, meaning she was often unable to talk about her feelings and mine. I can see the generational effect of addiction on us all. I became aware that my dad had... Read More...

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Pro-Pharma Publication Hides Suicide Risk of Antidepressants

SELLING PIILS TO ONE AND ALL – Aug. 28, 2023 - Critics sometimes argue that study quality is the main factor in publication—that it just so happens that all the favorable studies conducted by pharma are of good... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 5 2023suicide

NY Psychiatric Institute: Human Research Drug Trials Suspended after Man Commits Suicide

TRIAL & ERROR – Aug. 10, 2023 - The research study into the drug was then fully terminated in May 2023 - just weeks before the federal order to shut down all human trials on June 12. According to ... Read More...

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U.S.A. Suicides Hit All-Time High In 2022

LISTEN BETTER – Aug. 11, 2023 - A recent Johns Hopkins University analysis used preliminary 2022 data to calculate that the nation’s overall gun suicide rate rose last year to an all-time high. For the first time, th... Read More...

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Behind Hollywood’s Rise in Suicides

ALL SAD ENDINGS – Aug. 3, 2023 - A number of mental health experts told TheWrap that although suicides among the general population rose during the pandemic, people who work in entertainment can be particularl... Read More...

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988 Line Gets 5 Million Calls and Texts in 1st Year

AUDIO – TALK ABOUT IT! – July 15, 2023 - Last July, the cumbersome 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline became 988. The easy-to-remember lifeline was created to help people dealing with issues like depress... Read More...

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Antidepressants, Antipsychotics & Benzos All Increase Suicide Attempts

SAD BUT TRUE – July 10, 2023 - The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder is a contested construct that many researchers and clinicians believe should be eliminated from the DSM and ICD. The vast majority of pe... Read More...

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Xanax, Ativan & Klonopin Linked to Suicide, Brain Damage Even After You Stop

THAT’S DEPRESSING – June 30, 2023 - The new research, published in PLOS One, includes a lengthy list of side effects that a majority of benzo users experienced more than a year after they stopped taking the drugs. ... Read More...

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Famed Mommy Blogger Heather Armstrong, Suicide At 47

SADLY, AN OBITUARY – May 10, 2023 - Armstrong, who had two children with her former husband and business partner, Jon Armstrong, began Dooce in 2001 and built it into a lucrative career. She was one of the firs... Read More...

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The Teenager Who Jumped Off the Golden Gate Bridge

VIDEO – DON’T DROP HOPE – March 9, 2023 - In 2018, Hines told his story to ABC News, recalling the feeling he had the moment that he jumped. “Instant regret, powerful, overwhelming,” he remembers feeling. “As I fell... Read More...

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When Steven Tyler Tried to Help Kurt Cobain Kick Heroin?

DENIAL CAN KILL – March 30, 2023 - As he watched Nirvana’s meteoric rise in the early ‘90s, Steven Tyler says he recognised the “pain” in Kurt Cobain’s eyes and later discovered that Nirvana’s frontman was usin... Read More...

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Thoughts About the Overdose Conundrum

WHEN IS IT NOT SUICIDE? – Feb. 22, 2023 - The more lenient the psychiatrist is when his patient is late, the later the patient comes, leading to an inevitable situation where the psychiatrist cannot see the pat... Read More...

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School Chief Claims Dad Michael Refused Drug Rehab for Bullied Girl, 14, Who Killed Herself

MOM DIED TOO – Feb. 10, 2023 - Though her father, Michael Kuch, stated Brandy died due to addiction, now, Superintendent of New Jersey’s Central Regional School District Triantafillos Parlapanides claims that she die... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionFeb 21 2023life expectancyMental HealthsuicideteenagersTrauma

Why Are Kids So Sad?

FASCISM? – Oct. 11, 2022 - But the technology thesis hasn’t performed well under critical examination, as the Times package notes. What possible reason could there be for American young people to be particularl... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadepressionlife expectancyMental HealthOct 18 2022suicideteenagersTrauma

Can Smartphones Predict Suicide?

WOULDN’T THAT BE GREAT – Sept. 30, 2022 - But her life on the outside was as unsettled as ever, she said in an interview, with a stack of unpaid bills and no permanent home. It was easy to slide back int... Read More...

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Life-size Lanterns Raise Awareness of Suicide and Mental Injury

ART CAN HEAL TOO! – Sept. 23, 2022 - “Too often, we see people suffering in silence,” said Emily Norton Ashinhurst, executive director of the Irish Diaspora Center, which organized the one-night display. But... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 27 2022suicideTrauma

Influencer ‘Cass and the City’ gets candid about importance of addiction awareness

VIDEO – TALKING IS DA SOLUTION – Sept. 8, 2022 - He says he knew something was wrong in high school when he would experience going through withdrawal, but he pushed through. After high school, he began using he... Read More...

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‘The Best Tool We Have’ for Suicidal Teens

GENERATION MEDICATED – Aug. 27, 2022 - Dialectical behavior therapy is a subset of cognitive behavioral therapy, which aims to reframe a person’s thoughts and behavior. D.B.T. focuses initially on behavior and ... Read More...

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Suicide Hotline # 988 Gets Over 96,000 Calls During First Week

VIDEO – SAVE A SOUL, SAVE THE WORLD – July 24, 2022 - The 988 system will build on an existing network of over 200 crisis centers nationwide staffed by counselors who answer millions of calls each year - about ... Read More...

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