Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman says 90 percent of people who die by suicide have pre-existing mental disorders, whether they have been diagnosed and treated or not.
Survivors of opioid overdose are at great risk of dying in the year after overdose, but the deaths are not always caused by drug use, a new study reveals.
The Center for Practice Innovations (CPI) supports the New York State Office of Mental Health’s (OMH) mission to promote evidence-based practices (EBPs) to improve mental health services.
Dr. Kathleen Pike writes about five male athletes who have gone public with their mental health challenges and are rewriting the narrative surrounding mental disorders and men.
Dr. Kathleen Pike writes about five male athletes who have gone public with their mental health challenges and are rewriting the narrative surrounding mental disorders and men.
“The point of the story is less about suicide increasing in women but more about being aware,” said Dr. Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber. That awareness should focus on the fact that suicide is preventable.
The country needs to take suicide and mental illness more seriously said Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, noting that depression and bipolar disorder can be treated successfullyand suicide is often preventable.
“It’s not something that spontaneously, abruptly happens without any preceding process,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman. “The idea that #suicide is not preventable is completely fallacious.”
"When I heard about Bourdain, I was sad for him and . . . for people who might be influenced by it,” said Dr. Madelyn Gould, who has studied “suicide contagion” for years.
