Latest Suicidal ideation Stories
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adolescent children of mothers who have attempted suicide are themselves at increased risk of doing the same thing, German research report. Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, and her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995, along with their mothers. As reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the subjects were assessed at the beginning...
Recent suicide attempters treated with cognitive therapy were 50 percent less likely to try to kill themselves again within 18 months than those who did not receive the therapy, report researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A targeted form of cognitive therapy designed to prevent suicide proved better at lifting depression and feelings of hopelessness than the usual...
CHICAGO "“ How adolescents perceive their body weight may be more important than their actual weight in terms of increased likelihood of suicidal thoughts and attempts, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.The percentage of U.S. adolescents who are overweight has tripled during the past 20 years, from five percent in 1980 to 15 percent by 2000, according to background information in the article....
