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Rick Warren Asks for Prayers as He Readies to Preach Easter Messages on Anniversary of Son’s Suicide
Warren’s son, Matthew, committed suicide on April 5, 2013. He was 27. Matthew had been suffering from clinical depression and borderline personality disorder since birth. Rick Warren Asks for Prayers as He Readies to Preach Easter Messages on Anniversary of Son’s Suicide By Amy Jacobs 02 April, 2015 2:49 PM Rick Warren has a prayer request. The Southern California megachurch pastor is getting ready to preach at multiple services and celebrate Easter this weekend but the problem is: Easter falls on the day his son ended his life two years ago. “On a day where everything in me wants to be quiet and low key, be alone at home with…
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Two years later: woman who survived suicide attempt hopes to help others
Kempe is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and dysthymic disorder, a type of cyclical depression Two years later: woman who survived suicide attempt hopes to help others By WILLIAM MORRIS She works 20 hours a week now at Target. She is taking classes full-time at Riverland Community College. Even her appearance is different — the dark nail polish she once wore is gone, and the dark hair and pale skin are now blonde and tanned. And she also has launched a new website aimed at helping people who, like her, are struggling with mental illness or thoughts of suicide. Two years ago, Kempe was rushed to the hospital after slashing…
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions Helpful In Preventing Suicide Attempts
Findings revealed that all three of the treatments made a significant difference in these women’s lives, reducing the severity of intentional self-injury, the number of suicide attempts and overall reason for living. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions Helpful In Preventing Suicide Attempts Kathleen Lees First Posted: Mar 25, 2015 06:15 PM EDT New findings published in JAMA Psychiatry have shown that a variety of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) interventions have be found helpful in preventing suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury acts when reviewed in a randomized clinical trial of women who were dealing with a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Women who are suffering with BPD oftentimes have a heightened fear of…
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The day I tried to end my life
I would say the impulsivity of the BPD was what drove me to jump off the bridge that day. The day I tried to end my life I NEVER imagined one day could change my life so drastically. In hindsight it was no different to any other; I felt depressed and suffered suicidal ideations. However, after I had been to visit my psychiatrist who I was in regular contact with I felt particularly down. Just like any of the other times I felt this way I took the train and then walked the short distance to a well know Brisbane bridge. I enjoyed going to the bridge because in a…
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Too many deaths in custody are preventable but staff lack mental health expertise, says human rights body
Hundreds of deaths were avoidable and were caused by repeated “basic errors” by staff ignorant of mental-health risks Too many deaths in custody are preventable but staff lack mental health expertise, says human rights body CHARLIE COOPER Monday 23 February 2015 Hundreds of deaths in psychiatric units, prisons and police cells between 2010 and 2013 were avoidable and were caused by repeated “basic errors” by staff ignorant of mental-health risks, human rights advocates have said. Numerous suicides in detention came after failures to monitor patients or to remove hanging risks, according to a report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Its seven-month inquiry into deaths in UK hospital and…
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Hospital is condemned after charity worker, 27, kills herself on the ward: Staff failed to assess her despite 12 suicide bids
She had Borderline Personality Disorder which meant she had a fear of ‘rejection and abandonment. Hospital is condemned after charity worker, 27, kills herself on the ward: Staff failed to assess her despite 12 suicide bids By JAYA NARAIN FOR THE DAILY MAIL and RICHARD SPILLETT FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 07:55 EST, 3 February 2015 | UPDATED: 03:08 EST, 4 February 2015 A charity worker who had attempted suicide a dozen times was failed by doctors when she was admitted to hospital after taking an overdose, an inquest heard. Kim Lindfield was not given a mental health assessment despite suffering severe depression for years. The 27-year-old, who felt doctors saw her…