IN the fall of 2005, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. was treating an 18-year-old college freshman whom he describes as “intensely depressed, feeling suicidal and doing self-cutting.” A few years before, Thomson says, he would have interpreted her depression as anger turned inward. But instead he decided that her symptoms ...
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World Suicide Prevention Day is held on September 10 each year as an initiative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), and is co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The 2008 theme is“Think Globally. Plan Nationally. Act Locally.” This phrase, first used by the movement to save the ...
