Friday, February 23, 2007

Does media coverage of suicide help or hurt?



San Francisco Gate - I have fought severe depression for much of my life, and there ARE rewards to holding on to that depression; you get to be the We ride a roller coater of treatment from ECT to medication to therapy that often feels forced, and often does not work
Source: sfgate.com

McMurphy Had it Goooooood
Harvard Crimson - FM was too when the Harvard Mental Health Letter reported this month that Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for severe depression when drugs and psychotherapy have failed. In ECT, an electric current runs through the brain
Source: www.thecrimson.com

Health chiefs accused of blocking new therapy for heroin addicts
Scotland on Sunday Online - Of course most people going into MMT want to be free of drugs--that's what almost everyone who seeks treatment wants!! But if being free of drugs means, for some, severe depression, lethargy, and anhedonia, coupled with intense cravings 24-7 which
Source: scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com

Suicide of a Chancellor
Inside Higher Ed - After a leave and treatment for depression, he returned to the college as chancellor and subsequently left. Generally have contributed to her depression — specifically she had some sort of thyroid condition which can produce severe depression.
Source: www.insidehighered.com


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