Suicide

Marie Osmond had severe post-natal depression, considered suicide

NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

A revealing profile of Marie Osmond uncovers the severe post-natal depression that lurked behind her megawatt smile.

Abject poverty drives youth to suicide

Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Abject poverty led a youth to commit suicide by hanging himself at his home in Ghanteswar area of the city on Thursday night.

Tonight's Movie: Three-Cornered Moon (1933)

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

THREE-CORNERED MOON is a very early example of the "crazy family" Depression-era screwball comedy, a genre which hit its peak a few years later with MY MAN GODFREY (1936). Claudette Colbert plays Elizabeth Rimpelgar, who lives with her ditzy mother (Mary Boland) and three brothers in a spacious mansion in Brooklyn. Elizabeth may be the only sane member of the family, but the Depression soon...

Military Improves Mental Health Effort

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

The military is hoping that new programs at what they call the "resiliency campus" will help troops recover from one of the worst episodes of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. history.

Introspection, Not Rationalization, Needed in Wake of Fort Hood Slaughter

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday

A picture of Nidal Malik Hasan is emerging from the slaughter he carried out Thursday during a ceremony at a Fort Hood readiness center, leaving 13 people dead and another 30 wounded. Born in Virginia, sent to medical school by the U.S. Army, the psychiatrist was chastised for proselytizing to his patients about Islam. Asked his nationality, he didn't identify himself as an American but as a Palestinian....

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Fort Hood Shootings: What You Should Know

BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday

Suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people on Thursday. By Gil Kaufman Fort Hood Photo: Joe Raedle/ Getty Images Two days after the horrific shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas, details continue to emerge about the suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan .

What Killed Russian Tsars?

English Russia (Free subscription) | yesterday

There is a book, called “Medicine and Imperial Power in Russia”, which shows Russian history from the medical point of view. Some subjects are deserved to be real discoveries… It considered that: 1. Emperor Nikolas I ended up by committing a suicide. In fact he had a bacterial pneumonia, which was worsened by depression because of Russian loss in Crimean War. read more..

Save The Date For A Tropical Harvest

Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Does the military really “get” mental health?

Chronicles of Dissent (Free subscription) | yesterday

Less than a month before the tragic events at Ft. Hood, an Army press release said: Over the past year, the Army has engaged in a sustained effort to reduce the rate of suicide within its ranks. This effort has included an Army-wide suicide prevention stand-down and chain teach for every Soldier; the implementation of the [...]

Physician, Heal Thy Profession

N.O. - It's Just Me (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

I just stumbled upon this link: When Doctors Kill Themselves. The unsettling truth is that doctors have the highest rate of suicide of any profession. Every year, between 300 and 400 physicians take their own lives—roughly one a day. And, in sharp contrast to the general population, where male suicides outnumber female suicides four to one, the suicide rate among male and female doctors is the...

Fort Hood tragedy: Psychiatrists not immune from inner demons

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

One expert says psychiatrists are like anyone else — often unable to recognize the seriousness of their own condition and reluctant to seek help because of the stigma of mental illness.

More Emerging Bias: Maddow Guest Suggests Lack of Health Funding Motivated Fort Hood Killer

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

When in doubt, cite the need for more government funding of health care. You won't find an argument on MSNBC. Among the guests offering their perspectives about the Fort Hood massacre on Rachel Maddow's show last night was Salon.com national correspondent Mark Benjamin, who tried to downplay growing evidence that suspected assailant Nidal Malik Hasan was motivated by a jihadist's hatred of America...

Dealing with stress in the US military

BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

The former director of USA Veterans Administration Psychology Programmes, Dr Joseph Mancuni, looks at the challenges facing US soldiers in modern warfare, following the shooting of 13 people at a military base in Texas and as suicide and depression hit record highs.

Weekly Digest - 11/06/09

uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage. Audio Stream | Podcast | Mp3 Download This week on Uprising: * Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Pursuit of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America * Empire Notes on Clinton and Pakistan * Why Conservatives Love Ayn Rand * Black Agenda Report about the [...]

The News Media Business & Public Violence Outbursts

Progressive Values (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

In the last 24 hours, both the United States and Japan were horrified by three acts of public violence. Yet like watching an accident, millions were attracted to watching the news reports of these terrible incidents. In the Texas army base incident, it appears that a combination of depression as well as political radicalism was at fault. While the gunman appears to be a psychiatrist who had recently...

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stevenevans2009 | 10/29/2009

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A Short History of Anxiety

medicfarma0 | 07/20/2009

Did you know that anxiety has been around as long as humans have walked upright but that until recently, there has been little understanding about the condition? The ancient Greeks, who documented many instances to further increase our understanding of the condition, coined the word ‘agoraphobic’, initially given to people who were afraid to go outside to the market. The first recorded instance of...

Whizkid broker commit suicide over web prank

stinkysteven | 07/16/2009

Anjool 'Jools' Malde, an Oxford graduate and a stockbroker, leapt 80ft to his death after fearing that he would lose his job after playing an intended office humor and pranks at work.