Tag: Suicide
What’s the 411 on the new 988 hotline? 5 questions answered...
Derek Lee, The Ohio State University
Beginning July 16, 2022, people struggling with mental health crises can call 988,...
Transgender youth on puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones have lower rates...
Diana Tordoff, University of Washington and Arin Collin, University of Washington
Recent studies estimate that 1.8% to 2.7% –...
How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been...
After the FDA issued warnings about antidepressants, youth suicides rose and...
Stephen Soumerai, Harvard University and Ross Koppel, University at Buffalo
Depression in young people is vastly undertreated. About two-thirds...
How to help those who have lost loved ones to suicide...
Michael R. Nadorff, Mississippi State University and Julie Cerel, University of Kentucky
No matter the merriment of the season,...
Racial discrimination is linked to suicidal thoughts in Black adults and...
Janelle R. Goodwill, University of Chicago
Frederick Douglass is regarded as one of the most prominent abolitionists the world...
Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for...
Kristin J. Lieb, Emerson College
In Billie Eilish’s 2019 video for “Bury A Friend,” the then-17-year-old singer blurs the...
How you can help veterans every day
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Purdue University
As the nation celebrates our 17 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the number of these...