On November 18, 2014 U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Richard Burr (R-NC), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Joe Manchin (D-WV) today introduced The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, legislation that offers several critical measures that would improve mental health care and suicide prevention resources for American service members. The […]
How to fight suicide in your community using the ASIST training model
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, “to kill oneself”) is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Suicide is often carried out as a result of despair, the cause of which is frequently attributed to a mental disorder such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder,alcoholism, or drug abuse. Stress factors such as […]
Iranian spy master credits his agency with foiling dual suicide attacks aimed at disrupting the International Quds day rallies in July 2014
Fars News is reporting that the Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi has been quoted as saying his “forces have defused two bombing plots during the International Quds Day rallies in late July 2014.” Alavi said the Intelligence Ministry has “stopped and neutralized two suicide bombers in two separate provinces on the International Quds Day […]
Suicide counts in for the US military from January through March 2014
The Department of Defense released its quarterly suicide report (QSR), today, for the first quarter of calendar year 2014. The report summarizes suicide counts for all services and components. During the months of January through March of this year, there were 74 suicides among service members in the active component, 24 suicides among service members […]
The strange phenomena of subtle suicide
Suicide (Latin: suicidium, from sui caedere, “to kill oneself”) is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. But there is another type of suicide that is much more subtle. It affects millions of people who would generally not consider themselves suicidal. I see this come up time and time again in some of the people I talk […]
The problem of suicide in the military
As I look at the problem of suicide, the one common theme or element running throughout almost every case I examine is a pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair on the part of the individual involved. * Suicide therefore can be seen as a desperate act to escape some intolerable dilemma or problem. Many of […]
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