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Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts
Posted: July 29, 2020
Hope and help as the pandemic adds to a worsening trend…
The National Center for Health Statistics recently reported that the suicide rate across the U.S. increased 35% between 1999 and 2018, the last year with complete statistics. And now, during the global pandemic, mental health professional fear a spike as medical and economic stress increases to breaking point. Here’s hope and help:
Each year, more than 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide and 25 times that number attempt to take their own lives. (I, too, have had thoughts of suicide as I struggle with clinical depression.)
[In 2017, "intentional self harm" (suicide) claimed 47,172 American lives, making it number 10 in the top causes for death in the United States. See editor Stu Johnson's article "About Those Numbers."]
Here are some posts I trust are hopeful and helpful if you or a loved one are dealing with suicidal thoughts.
- Hope and help for suicidal thoughts
- If you’re thinking about suicide
- Do those who commit suicide go to heaven?
- What about euthanasia’s “death with dignity”
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