A recently released analysis from Colorado’s 9-8-8 suicide hotline says the majority of statewide residents calling to seek ...

The 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health report found that in recent years, depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in teens have declined.

Disclosures Future Neurology. 2014;9 (5):553-561. Risk Factors for Suicide in Epilepsy Robertson reviewed major mortality studies in epilepsy patients, that included deaths by suicide. [27] ...

Fluctuating or dynamic risk factors for suicide include marital status (single, divorced, widowed), current mental illness (especially depression), mental health symptoms (hopelessness, agitation ...

Key takeaways: Intellectual and developmental disabilities may increase suicide risk because they are linked to established risk factors. The researchers used a fictional case to demonstrate their ...

“The identified risk factors include a family history of suicide, previous suicide attempts or self-harm, despair, guilt, and depression,” noted Michels. The studies also found an extremely ...

However, the same dataset points out that being queer or transgender is not a suicide risk in it of itself. The true cause is ...

Suicide drivers1 are those factors that may elevate a person’s risk at a specific moment in time. They are person-specific and often relate to stressful areas of a person's life that are ...

A February 2024 study also found that people who started taking GLP-1 drugs were less likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety later on, both key risk factors for suicide.

Comprehending Risk Factors “Sometimes, we simply don’t know what to look for,” says Elizabeth Pol, M.A., a certified suicide psychological autopsy investigator and the founder of Resilient ...