
This was home, for a while anyway.
Okay, so not every post has to be strictly academic. If my twitter feed is any indication yesterday was world suicide prevention day. So with a heavy heart I have not one, but two very personal stories regarding suicide. Obviously this is a content warning for those wanting to go further, we will be dealing with suicide, death, and suicidal ideation.
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September 11, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one, Mental health | Tags: anxiety, death, depression, loss, Mental health, mental illness, PTSD, suicide, suicide prevention | 3 Comments

Community characteristics play an important role in perpetuating teen suicide clusters and thwarting prevention efforts, according to a new study by sociologists who examined clusters in a single town. The study illustrates how the homogeneous culture and high degree of social connectedness of a community can increase suicide risk, particularly among teenagers.
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September 10, 2016 | Categories: Mental health, Technology | Tags: anxiety, behavioral science, health, lifestyle, peer reviewed, psychology, social media, stress, suicide, suicide prevention | Leave a comment

The great racial divide, despite all the evidence showing that racism, hate and frankly plain stupidity is alive and well, there are people who cannot accept it. This probably will not change anything for those people, but for the first time a new study shows that while suicide rates in children younger than 12 have remained steady for the past 20 years, there are significantly higher suicide rates among black children.
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May 19, 2015 | Categories: Ethics, News | Tags: behavior science, depression, health, mathematics, Mental Health Stuff, peer reviewed, political issues, science, social science, statistics, suicide, suicide prevention | Leave a comment