suicide attempt

Children with disorders such as epilepsy and schizophrenia have higher rates of suicide, but consistent care reduces risk A multistate study of Medicaid enrollees led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that suicide risk was highest among youth with epilepsy...

Academics at the University of Bristol have taken the first long-term look at potential factors that could lead to suicide attempts in high-risk young people. Published in The Lancet Psychiatry researchers examined questionnaire data from 16 and 21 year olds who are part of Bristol's Children...

Mayo Clinic study points to firearms being a major factor in first suicide attempts in youth ages 10 to 24 First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a study of children and adolescents published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent...

A troubled teenager is hospitalized with suicidal thoughts. The patient is diagnosed, medicated, and counseled by a team of experts. The teen is sent home a few days later, and the following week the parent finds the child's bedsheets fashioned into a noose. The scenario is tragically common...

The number of school-age children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or attempts has more than doubled since 2008, according to a new Vanderbilt-led study published today in Pediatrics. The study, "Hospitalization for Suicide Ideation or Attempt," looked at trends in emergency...

Phase I began on Labor Day: YS' initial suicide attempt, cardiac arrest and near death experience. He survived all of that and progressed to Phase II, recovery. He was in such bad shape, with abnormal EEGs and greatly impaired heart and kidney functioning, but is now almost back to where he...

My 16 yr old daughter gets released tomorrow from the psychiatric department at our local hospital, she's been in there for almost 6 days. She ate lots of pills and cut herself. It came as a surprise. We are making our home as suicide-safe as possible now. My wife and I spend four hours a day...