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To celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year, Florence Le's family picked her up from the mental health facility she was staying. Two days later, the mother and piano teacher died by suicide inside Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.
In 2021, someone died by suicide every 11 minutes in the United States, which equates to nearly 50,000 Americans every year.
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With doctors twice as likely to die of suicide than the population average, three key changes are urgently needed
Women may be more susceptible to concussion, but remain significantly underrepresented within sport and exercise science research. This, leading experts warn, means they often do not get the treatment or aftercare they need following a head injury.
The hope at the root of my self-destruction
A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger — and intervene.
People in rural Australia don’t experience higher rates of mental illness than their city counterparts – it’s just more likely to end in tragedy when they do
If we consider suicide rates within age groups, men over 85 are at three times the average risk. We should make sure older men have ways to express when they’re not coping and seek help.
Society sometimes deems people who die by suicide as selfish, attention-seeking or mentally ill. Experts explain how these falsehoods worsen the stigma, and they debunk common suicide myths.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
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While for some, gambling might be a source of entertainment, for others, it can lead to significant harms.
Authorities are considering adding warning labels to the common asthma drug montelukast due to its link with depression, nightmares and suicidal thoughts.
The words we use to talk about suicide can help or hurt efforts to reduce stigma around the crisis.
The grueling profession has long kept silent about mental distress. After losing a friend, Carrie Cunningham began telling her own story
The reluctance to talk about suicide has many implications. Stigma also affects everything from how people grieve to how people help prevent it.
Experts explain what to watch out for — and what to do — if you’re concerned about a loved one.
As a student, parent, teacher, coach, or health professional, learn strategies to help improve the mental health of young people in your life, recognise concerning behaviours, and feel better prepared to have conversations about mental health.
Around one current or former emergency services worker dies from suicide every month. For military veterans, that rate is one every single week. Their families need support.
March 18, 2022. It is a night I will never forget. I had been out with mates, gotten home and I was just feeling the lowest I had ever felt in my entire life. I ended up being in hospital for 16 hours.
Suicide rates have increased by about 15 per cent, and while suicide safety planning is a proven prevention tool —many people don't know about it.
Australia’s national peak body for suicide prevention is calling for alternatives to emergency department care for young people in mental distress.
Suicide and mental health issues are growing problems among Long COVID patients, and the medical system isn't well equipped to fix them.
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