“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.
"Some people. . .may be quite sensitive to anything they perceive as a slight and may overreact in terms of how it impacts on them or in their response,” says Dr. Philip Muskin.
“There is a dearth of empathy, even of kindness, in the national conversation, and those deficits turn ordinary neurosis into actionable despair,” writes Dr. Andrew Solomon.
"Some medications can cause undesirable side effects such as emotional dulling," says Dr. David Hellerstein. "Switching or augmenting with more activating medications can address that issue."
There are a number of factors — temperament, personality traits, self-esteem, genes, and family history, to name a few — involved in the etiology of clinical depression, says Dr. Myrna Weissman.
90% of people who die by suicide experience some kind of mental illness. Dr. John Mann, said that many of those patients go without help in the US because they can't afford care or don't seek it out.
