The Latest Breaking News from Suicide

“My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directness, “Both chose suicide”.

The Trump administration ends the option for LGBTQ callers to speak with specialists in LGBTQ mental health

ChatGPT's affability and encouraging tone leads people into dangerous, life-threatening delusions, finds a recent NYT article. Many examples of responses encouraging psychosis-like symptoms have been found by a variety of researchers, including some leading people to commit suicide to meet imaginary AI-created phantoms.

The crisis center has received more than 16 million calls, texts, and chats since its 2022 launch

Experts say failure to remove known ligature points from the cells of high risk inmates is just one part of the ‘perverse situation’ in Australian jails

As part of the Trump administration’s efforts aimed at stopping diversity, equity and inclusion, the government has been restricting how it monitors public health. Along with cuts to federally funded research, the administration has targeted public health efforts to gather information about sexual orientation and gender identity.

The word “crisis” is used frequently and, I would argue, inaccurately, to depict the psychological well-being of today’s college students.

Ten people, including high school students, were killed in the country's worst mass shooting in its post-World War II history. The perpetrator also died in an apparent suicide, police said.

Coroners say they are being ‘fobbed off’ by governments and have no power to ensure that dangerous ligature points are removed from prison cells