Social Isolation, Guns and a 'Culture of Suicide'
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New research suggests that suicide risk factors are heightened in rural areas by social isolation, lack of mental health care and the easy availability of guns.
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A trend among young people leans toward offline relationships. The young people say old-fashioned face to face is the way to build real friendships, and cancelling profiles on social networking sites is not social suicide.
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Intelligent young men are less likely to take their own lives than others, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - Men and women who've ever dealt  with unemployment may have a heightened risk of dying early,  particularly from suicide and injuries, a Swedish study  suggests.
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JOLO, Philippines  - The sound of guns used to be commonplace on Jolo, an island in the remote south of the Philippines used as a base by a rebel group linked to al Qaeda, but it has been relatively calm for a few years now.
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Among abused and neglected children who are genetically prone to develop depression, the risk of doing so may be reduced if they have someone to talk to, share good news with and get advice from, new study findings show.
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NEW YORK  - Treating people with depression -- by means of either medications or psychotherapy -- leads to a drop in suicide attempts, according to a new report.
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"You can only buy and sell them with cash. When money is being carried around you need to have protection, so guns became instrumental in protecting and in threatening people."  The 11-year-old's murder may have been linked to the fatal shooting of a gang leader a year earlier AT ABOUT 8pm on Wednesday August 23 last year, Liam Smith, a teenager with short cropped hair and piercing ... via Times Online
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A study finds Scottish people from poor areas are more likely to kill themselves than those from affluent homes.
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A new study challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that violent films prevent violent crime by attracting and keeping would-be assailants occupied.
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Terrorist attacks affect people's mental health even when they are not directly involved, experts say.
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Comment is free: John Harris:  Our popular culture is increasingly defined by an unhealthy refusal to let go of the past
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IS household violence becoming a national epidemic in Hungary and what can the authorities do about it? As, spokesperson for the 10-year-old grass-root NPO national women rights group Nok a Nokert - Egyutt az ...
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New generation of violent inmates blamed for growth of gang culture in prisons
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: To arm Sunni gangs smacks of desperation. America seems not yet to have learned that it will never win by arms alone.
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No matter where in the world they live, people who are young, single, female, poorly educated or mentally ill are at higher risk of suicide, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Among abused and neglected  children who are genetically prone to develop depression, the  risk of doing so may be reduced if they have someone to talk  to, share good news with and get advice from, new study  findings show.