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In Defense of Suicide Prevention

February 28, 2018

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Many of this site’s readers send me angry emails or texts. They post challenging comments. Some are so passionately opposed to suicide prevention that they resort to harassment. I have received threatening missives and phone calls from numerous people. Some urge me…

Committed vs completed vs died by in suicide terminology

Language Matters: Committed Suicide vs. Completed Suicide vs. Died by Suicide

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

September 21, 2017

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People in the suicide prevention field discourage the use of the term “committed suicide.” The verb “commit” (when followed by an act) is generally reserved for actions that many people view as sinful or immoral. Someone commits burglary, or murder, or rape,…

Speaking of Suicide … Within Limits

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

August 17, 2017

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I don’t want to encourage people to kill themselves. I also don’t want to give advice on ways to die by suicide, or to advertise the supposed virtues of suicide. Can you blame me? Some people do blame me. Hundreds of people…

Would an Anti-Self-Harm Oath Reduce Veteran Suicide?

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

August 13, 2017

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Veteran suicide is a national tragedy. Every day, 20 veterans kill themselves. The veteran suicide rate is more than double that of the general population (35.3 vs. 15.2 per 100,000). (Those stats and others are available here.) Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican…

Why I Came Out of the (Suicide) Closet

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

May 16, 2017

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What will people think of you? What will people say about you? Some people asked me these questions when I told them I was publishing an essay in the New York Times (“A Suicide Therapist’s Secret Past”) about a very dark time…

Suicide Contagion and “13 Reasons Why”

by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

April 30, 2017

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I don’t really want to read one more thing about suicide in 13 Reasons Why, let alone add to the mix. But I think it’s necessary. Many articles and essays I read about the show are based on emotion, without acknowledging the…

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In Defense of Suicide Prevention

Language Matters: Committed Suicide vs. Completed Suicide vs. Died by Suicide

Speaking of Suicide … Within Limits

Would an Anti-Self-Harm Oath Reduce Veteran Suicide?

Why I Came Out of the (Suicide) Closet

Suicide Contagion and “13 Reasons Why”

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