They work at the edge of life and death, firefighters along with others exposed to traumatic stress, among them soldiers and military veterans, paramedics and police officers. And if they are ...
Posts by Category: Suicide and Trauma
Legal concerns
The numbers are troubling. In a typical high school classroom, it’s likely that two to three students have made a suicide attempt in the past year. What’s more, a prior suicide attempt is one of ...
Reinventing yourself
After a 40-year career in broadcasting followed by thoughts of suicide in 1997, Dave Robinson is now a senior peer counselor in Sacramento, Calif. “I went to zero,” he recalls of that low time in ...
Hurricane’s wake
Suicides triple in wake of Hurricane Katrina The emotional effects of seeing homes, neighborhoods and lives destroyed continue to plague residents of the Gulf Coast more than a year after the ...
Storm surge
The suicides are starting to swell. These deaths—sudden, violent and wrenching—bring a whole new wave of grief and despair to former Gulf Coast residents, some of them now back home, most still ...