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Suicidism and Suicide Prevention

January 8, 2024

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Editor’s Note: This guest post by Alexandre Baril, PhD, is a departure from Speaking of Suicide’s usual fare, both in style and content. It’s a lightly edited excerpt from Dr. Baril’s book Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted)

A Personal Note to Readers of “Speaking of Suicide”

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

September 6, 2022

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After my last post, a reader submitted a comment that didn’t ask about suicide, or suicidal thoughts, or anything else related to ending one’s life. His words touched me. For one thing, this is a reader who’s submitted comments to this website

Why Do Suicide Hotlines Get So Much Hate?

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

August 15, 2022

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If you use social media, it might shock you to know that suicide hotlines do – yes, really – actually help many people. Seriously. I swear. This is shocking news, I’m sure, because according to tweet after tweet on Twitter, if you

The Pandemic, Suicide Rates, and Social Isolation

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

December 30, 2020

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We don’t know if suicide rates in the U.S. have gone up since Covid-19 first spread around the country, but it’s not hard to find reports of people whose suicides seem indelibly linked to the pandemic. There’s Dr. Lorna Breen, the ER

Let’s (Really) Talk about Suicide

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

June 14, 2018

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In a week when two celebrities, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, died by suicide within days of each other, so did hundreds of other people in the U.S. One of them was named Flinn, a classmate of mine in high school. On

In Defense of Suicide Prevention

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

February 28, 2018

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Many of this site’s readers send me angry emails or texts. They post challenging comments. Some are so passionately opposed to suicide prevention that they resort to harassment. I have received threatening missives and phone calls from numerous people. Some urge me

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Suicidism and Suicide Prevention

A Personal Note to Readers of “Speaking of Suicide”

Why Do Suicide Hotlines Get So Much Hate?

The Pandemic, Suicide Rates, and Social Isolation

Let’s (Really) Talk about Suicide

In Defense of Suicide Prevention

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