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Health care providers can play a critical role in identifying people at risk for suicide and connecting them to the care they need. A new video from The Pew Charitable Trusts looks at how universal screening for suicide risk helps ensure that more people get essential help.
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Mashup Score: 2How to Connect People in Crisis to the Care They Need - 7 hour(s) ago
For people experiencing mental health- or substance use disorder-related crises, jails and emergency departments have become frequent landing places.
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Mashup Score: 0Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers - 1 day(s) ago
New federal data shows that the suicide rate among Black youth ages 10 to 19 surpassed that of their White peers for the first time in 2022, increasing 54% since 2018, compared to a 17% decrease for White youth. In fact, the suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups.
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President Joe Biden reflected in his State of the Union in March on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it had wreaked havoc on people’s day-to-day lives, spurring “a mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness.” Data supports this: As the pandemic unfolded, one 2021 study found that about 4 in 10 adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, four times pre-pandemic levels.
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Mashup Score: 1Youth Suicide Risk Increased Over Past Decade - 2 day(s) ago
The share of high school students who experienced what is known as “suicidality”—which includes suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts—increased from 2011 to 2021, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Mashup Score: 0It's Time to Create Mentally Healthy Workplaces - 2 day(s) ago
More than a decade ago, I experienced severe anxiety while working for an organization that didn’t have the healthiest of cultures. The situation ultimately spiraled into a debilitating depression, which forced me to take a leave of absence from my job, which shattered my sense of self. Ambitious high achievers couldn’t have depression, right?
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In this episode of “Mental Health in America,” Julie Wertheimer, project director for Pew’s work on mental health and justice partnerships, discusses the current state of these response systems and their impact on our criminal justice system.
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Mashup Score: 0America's Mental Health Crisis - 2 day(s) ago
Young people are contending with anxiety, jails have become de facto mental health centers, and deaths are rising from drug overdoes—but we know the way forward, if we have the will. Our nation is facing a new public health threat. Accelerated but not solely caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, feelings of anxiety and depression have grown to levels where virtually no one can ignore what is happening. A CNN/Kaiser Family Foundation poll put a number to it: 90% of Americans feel we are in a mental health crisis.
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The most recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) demonstrates that suicide, including firearm suicide, remains a substantial public health concern: In 2022, deaths by suicide in the United States reached almost 50,000—the highest number ever recorded. And more than half, approximately 27,000 of those deaths, involved firearms.
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Only 13% of adults in the U.S. have heard of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and know its purpose nine months after its launch, according to a nationally representative survey conducted for The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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This #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, there’s something easy you can do to potentially save lives: Spread the word about 988. A call or text can link people needing help for suicidality, substance use, or emotional distress with trained crisis counsellors. https://t.co/AmcGHPrdtP https://t.co/iGj763G4Wk
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"Suicide is ubiquitous. No socio-economic group, no subculture is immune," @CatholicUniv's @lab_jobes says. In fact, more than 48,000 Americans died by suicide in 2021. But there's reason for hope. https://t.co/i6wpJjd38l #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth https://t.co/1Qx41IX6He