Articles, Suicidal Ideation & Suicide

US SUICIDE RATES ARE THE HIGHEST THEY’VE BEEN SINCE WW2

Note: I started this Community Page because of my work that I do on suicide prevention project. We want to do early intervention; helping those who struggle early, before stress becomes crisis. I found this article yesterday, and it makes me really sad.

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In 2017, 14 out of every 100,000 Americans died by suicide, according to a new analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. That’s a 33% increase since 1999, and the highest age-adjusted suicide rate recorded in the U.S. since 1942. (Rates were even higher during the Great Depression, hitting a century peak of 21.9 in 1932.)

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https://time.com/5609124/us-suicide-rate-increase/

Articles

To write love on her arms

by Jamie Tworkowski

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Her arms remember razor blades, fifty scars that speak of self-inflicted wounds. Six hours after I meet her, she is feeling trapped, two groups of “friends” offering opposite ideas. Everyone is asleep. The sun is rising. She drinks long from a bottle of liquor, takes a razor blade from the table and locks herself in the bathroom. She cuts herself, using the blade to write “FUCK UP” large across her left forearm.

The nurse at the treatment center finds the wound several hours later. The center has no detox, names her too great a risk, and does not accept her. For the next five days, she is ours to love. We become her hospital and the possibility of healing fills our living room with life.

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Original article:

https://twloha.com/learn/story/