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Natl. Suicide Survivors Day: Three suicide survivors

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

All threee have dates. Bryan's date is Oct. 10, 2008. That is the day his father killed himself. Bryan talked about his father today at the annual survivor conference sponsored by the Southeast Florida Chapter of ...

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Suicide Survivors Day: What about the children?

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

There are books on display by the front table here at the annual conference for survivors sponsored by the southeast Florida Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. There are books on grief, ...

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National Suicide Survivors Day: Blogging live from Fort Lauderdale

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I am spending today with several dozen survivors at a gathering sponsored by the southeast Florida chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. On each table are programs for the event, LifeSavers candy ...

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Depression’s ultimate victims: Suicide survivors

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Today is National Suicide Survivors Day. Survivors are the loved ones who live with anguished - and sometimes angry - hearts. Their lives are consumed with unimaginable sorrow and unanswered questions: What could I have ...

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The Fort Hood massacre: Secondary PTSD or Jihad?

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

It is naive to believe that people will respond to stressful events in exactly the same way. Actually, it is stupid. Which is why I am slightly ticked off this morning by an opinion ...

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The questions Robert Enke has helped us ask…

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I was a panelist last Friday on the BBC radio program called World Have Your Say. The title of the program was Should You Make Your Mental Illness Public? Debates like this are being ...

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Stigma - not depression - killed Robert Enke

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Stigma kills. Robert Enke, the beloved goalkeeper for the German national soccer team, stepped in front of a train ...

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Aerosmith: My drinking, my depression and my hopes for Steven Tyler

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Please tell me that Steven Tyler's relapse last year was not the cause of his splitting from Aerosmith this week. Tyler got clean in 1986 - when the band was in a drug and alcohol ...

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The Fort Hood Massacre: A disturbed psychiatrist, a gun and the reality of war

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I will go to my therapist's office this afternoon. I will sit in the waiting room and read an old magazine. Another client will walk from a hallway that leads to my therapist's office, pass ...

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The Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: Make time to listen on Thursday and Friday

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

On Thursday former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 82, will do what she has done for over 30 years - bring together doctors, policy makers and consumers to draft policies that will decrease stigma and discrimination ...

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