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SANE Australia executive director Barbara Hocking said depression was a silent epidemic among many men who still believed discussing the difficult topic was a sign of weakness.

A study appearing in The American Journal of Medicine compared deaths among 16,683 residents of Pennsylvania to people in the general population of the state. The research showed that men who have bariatric surgery were 5.6 times as likely to commit suicide as men in the general population. Women who had undergone the surgery were 8.3 times as likely to commit suicide as women in the general population.

Miller’s suicide is symbolic of a frightening global trend: an alarming rise in male suicides. According to a round of studies conducted in North America, Europe and Australia, one reason for the increase may be the discrimination fathers encounter in family courts, especially the denial of access to their children.

Norman Heffernon, Health care worker and volunteer single fathers’ support mentor, has called this incident another disgraceful display of the disregard that Australia has for its young men, often leaving them to deal with life’s catastrophies completely on their own, and stigmatising any men that dare to ask for help. Heffernon claims that the hypocrisy of the current Rudd government is that it has been lavishing funding to extensive preventative campaigns, while limiting the programmes almost exclusely to women and women’s issues.

The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (5)   This is the fifth article of the series: “The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran” Few quotes from the previous articles of this series are given here. In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, [...]

U.S. House of Representatives passes suicide-prevention measure named after N.J. soldier Bill would require military counselors to remain in touch with recent vets Read more on The Star-Ledger

Suicide has become a major concern amongst the older adults of society with the over 65s becoming one of the highest risk groups for suicidal behaviours. In fact, white males over 65 have the highest risk group of all for suicide. In fact, previous studies have shown that, although adults over 65 made up only [...]

Recent years, researchers admit high rates of suicides among youth within the foster care system. Researchers explain that suicides are caused by social and emotional conditions rather than a mental disease. Furthermore, it is often associated with hundreds of suicides and suicide attempts. “Researchers discovered attention problems and aggressive or delinquent behavior in 40 per [...]

Suicide and Self-Harm   Introduction and definitions: Suicide is a form of deliberate self harm (nowadays the term self harm has replaced DSH, parasuicide, attempted suicide. In this lecture the term DSH will still be used) which end up with the individual being expired. There are no figures here to indicate the percentage of suicide [...]

This 1-credit continuing education opportunity is co-sponsored by the American College of Forensic Examiners International (ACFEI) and the American Psychotherapy Association. ACFEI maintains responsibility for all continuing education accreditations. This article is approved by the following for 1 continuing education credit: APA provides this continuing education credit for Diplomates. The American College of [...]