Suicide Awareness Around the World
This past year nearly 800 000 people worldwide died by their own hand. This included virtually every country, culture and age group on the planet.
A New Hotline Number For US Suicide Prevention
The telephone exchanges 911, 999, 112 and 000 are well known emergency call numbers in the US Canada, Mexico and the Philippines; the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong; the EU; and Australia respectively. Soon there may be a specialized three-digit number for people in the US who are contemplating suicide: 988
When Traumatized Parents Raise Kids
What is it like to raise children after you experienced and endured trauma and it’s consequences for most of your own young life?
Living With a Psychiatric Disability in an Able-Minded World
Hannah Hilgeman is a contributor to the online health community The Mighty. She writes about her physical disability: postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), her mental health disability: borderline personality disorder (BPD), and life at the intersection of these two chronic conditions.
Using Tech To Avoid Tragedy
Studies have shown that nearly half of people who die by suicide visited their primary health care provider in the month before their death. Routine screening for depression can uncover suicidal thoughts, but clearly that’s not effective enough…
Does BPD = PTSD?
Two authors propose that Borderline Personality Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder may, in fact, be one and the same thing. They argue this might also permit the controversial term Borderline Personality to be dropped from the diagnosis.
