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Statistics say that apart from the youths, another age group that is particularly vulnerable to suicide is the people in the age bracket of 65 years and above. The overall U.S. suicide rate is 11 per 100,000 people. But for those 65 and older, that...
Unfortunately, the year gone by would be known not because it brought some thing good, but what it left behind for us - the shocking figure of one million suicides with a life ending every 40 seconds followed by 20 suicidal attempts every ...
A survey conducted by the administrators and students at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School revealed that depression is a big issue among high school students. Around 11.7 percent of respondents have seriously planned committing suicide over the past...
The biggest fear of students basically very good and average ones is the exam result. For some, expectations are high, while for others fear of failure rules the roost even before the results come out, the stress shows on the faces of such...
In the recent years, suicide rate among kids has rocketed startlingly, as per the report transpired by CDC. This is definitely a matter of serious concern. In this regard Dr. David Fassler, a University of Vermont psychiatry professor, observers, 'This...
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If you are getting regular nightmares, then there are chances that you may probably try to commit suicide some day in your life; a new study by the Swedish researchers has uncovered this fact. The patients under study tried to commit suicide and 89...
Believe it or not, men are also clutched by depression. The scientists have put this revelation under light. We often believe that men are not bound in the strands of depression. However, this is not the case. Dr. Ladson Hinton avers in this connection...
According to a report, about a quarter of students at Beijing University are suffering from clinical depression. The possible cause found was discontent in the students due to financial pressures, intense academic competitions and poor scope for...
A $35 million taxpayer-funded study was the largest trial of its kind ever conducted. It provided what industry-sponsored trials have rarely captured:--
Rather than merely ask whether patients are getting better, the study asked what patients most care...
Thousands of preventable suicides is increasingly occurring in the US. What is the root to this tragic phenomenon? Most of us clearly and reasonably have the reply to it - Depression. But, do you know that the phenomenon affects 19 million U.S. adults,...
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The State of Depression in America has been released by the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA). It is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive analysis on depression. In the U.S., depression is the leading cause of both disability and suicide, the...
A psychiatrist's look out should be trying to tackle childhood depression with counseling and not by prescribing antidepressants. In any case, it should not be feeling good at the recent fall of suicide rates because of label warnings on antidepressant...
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