Tag: Suicide
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...
African American teens face mental health crisis but are less likely...
Rebecca Klisz-Hulbert, Wayne State University
Black youth in the U.S. experience more illness, poverty, and discrimination than their white counterparts. These issues put them at...
Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter.
Since 2010, depression,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
