Suicide Archives

Rising Rates of Suicide

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Suicide Rates Rising: When Do We Acknowledge That Something Isn’t Working?! Regardless of race, gender, age, or ethnicity, people across the United States are increasingly choosing death as the only way out. More people take their lives than die from opioid overdoses — only with suicide, there are no drug dealers to blame or people

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Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Posted on September 26, 2017 by admin

Antidepressants raise the risk of an early death by 33%, controversial study finds The drugs do more harm than good, researchers say, and their use should be cut Psychiatrists disputed this and argued that they have been safely used for years McMaster University in Canada analysed the impact on nearly 380,000 people By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressants, depression, life span, mental illness, suicide

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality

What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?

Posted on December 1, 2016 by admin

By Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM Side Effects are explained clearly in this article. We know that all drugs have side effects. That’s just part of the deal right? But is it really possible that an antidepressant can cause a sane person to act like a cold-blooded criminal? I imagined my audience would be wondering as much

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Health, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressant, depression, mental health

Trading Truth-telling for Shame

Posted on September 25, 2014 by admin

Gayathri Ramprasad has just published a memoir, Shadows in the Sun, which uncovers her intimate story of growing up in India when it was shameful to admit mental disturbances of any kind–especially crippling anxiety and depression. With the help of compassionate peers who had experienced the worst kind of mental disturbances and recovered, Gayathri exposes her

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Meditation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Suicide

Bipolar Disorder & Alternatives to Meds

Posted on July 11, 2014 by admin

One in five people who have bipolar disorder commit suicide. It can be a crippling illness characterized by unpredictable, extreme mood swings including profound depression and manic behaviors. Fortunately, there is research that points to the effectiveness of some micronutrients in stopping the symptoms of bipolar disorder. “Some people may inherit the need for

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Micronutrients, Suicide alternatives to meds, bipolar, depression medication, mental health

US Ranks 70th in Health

Posted on April 3, 2014 by admin

The Social Progress Index was published on April 2, 2014. It was created by an independent, not for profit org called the Social Progress Imperative—directed by Michael Green and sponsored by the likes of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Social Progress Imperative defines Social Progress like this: “the capacity of a society to meet the basic

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