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Chatbots and Suicide: Both Sides of the Story

December 10, 2025

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Two recent headlines show ChatGPT’s dramatic potential to harm or help people with suicidal thoughts: “Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions” (The New York Times) “Over 1 Million Users Talk to ChatGPT about Suicide Each Week” (PC Magazine) ChatGPT isn’t…

I Wanted to Die for Five Years. Here’s How I Saved My Life.

by Morgan Ellis

November 16, 2025

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On a cold November night in 2020, I awoke at 3 a.m. to find I was barely breathing. Very light inhalations, barely enough to stir my chest, spaced unnaturally far apart. I’ll never forget the cadence and feel of that breathing. “huh………..…

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Where is It OK to Speak of Suicide?

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

October 7, 2025

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I was mid-sentence when someone slid a sheet of paper across the table to my friend Sam. “This is for you,” a female-sounding voice said to Sam, and the messenger slipped away without my ever seeing her. We were lunching at a…

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How I Survived the Trauma of My Daughter’s Suicide

by Jay E. Valusek

September 3, 2025

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The last time my daughter, Beth, was seen alive was at 8:01 a.m., July 18, 2018. I know this from the time stamp on a grainy, black-and-white surveillance video taken inside the visitors center of a popular tourist attraction in south-central Colorado.…

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To the People at My Suicide Prevention Talk Last Week…

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

August 29, 2025

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First, I’m sorry Luna barked while I was being introduced. It annoyed me, too. To the person who wrote in the chat, “Like children, you should have someone watching them while you work” — you’re right. I’ll do better next time. To…

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Suicide, Secrecy, and ChatGPT

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

August 26, 2025

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Decades ago, when I was 25, I wrote in a suicide note to my parents: Never, ever, ever blame yourselves or question if there was something you could have said, could have done, could have noticed. There wasn’t. It’s all me. I…

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Chatbots and Suicide: Both Sides of the Story

I Wanted to Die for Five Years. Here’s How I Saved My Life.

Where is It OK to Speak of Suicide?

How I Survived the Trauma of My Daughter’s Suicide

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