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 ...
Tag Archives: depression
Primary Care
Primary Care: A key to suicide prevention Suicidal patients. They’re passing through the offices of internists, family practitioners and other primary care providers (PCPs) in droves, often ...
Dying for help
Depression. Hopelessness. Lack of resiliency. All risk factors for suicide—and in all genders and age groups. These factors often appear during a time of intense change in a person’s ...
Apart and alone
Bob Stern was one of a kind. He was a man’s man. A free spirit and adventure seeker who enjoyed being different and more capable—in his estimation—than others. Bob was a calculated risk taker, ...
Underdiagnosed, undertreated
FACT: Depression is not normal. It is a serious and potentially life-threatening illness with estimated costs of $44 billion annually in the U.S. FACT: Depression is a disorder that, much like ...
Physician education is key
Physician education in depression prevents suicide. So does restricting access to lethal means. This is borne out by a comprehensive review of research literature from 1966 to June 2005 for ...
Working well
Companies that cost-effectively address behavioral health benefits These three companies enjoy the value of better integrating behavioral health and general medical benefits to clearly ...
Health class curriculum
“Schools can really help by building depression, anxiety, impulsivity into regular biology or health classes,” says David Shaffer, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Columbia ...
Most vulnerable
“A child can’t be depressed.” It’s what we adults told ourselves for years, when mood disorders and thoughts of suicide were shrouded in stigma and shame. Today we know better. We’ve heard about ...
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 ...