Jonathan Rhys Meyers Hospitalized

Friday, July 1, 2011

Jonathan Rhys Meyers was taken to a hospital in London following a suspected suicide try on Tuesday evening.

The 33-year-old star of Showtimes's "The Tudors," and was identified in his Maida Vale, London house slumped more than following downing pills. Rhys Meyers refused treatment method from paramedics for through thirty minutes and ultimately the police had been referred to as on scene. Jonathan was taken to a hospital near his home by ambulance.

Rhys Meyers, who struggles using a drinking issue, entered treatment method to get a fourth time final May and after that once again last month.

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Key To Preventing Suicides : Male Desire To Be Strong And Protect Family

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Masculine ideals of strength coupled with strong loved ones ties can assist men combat depression and overcome thoughts of suicide, according to University of British Columbia study.

In a research to appear in a forthcoming issue of Social Science and Medicine, UBC researchers John Oliffe and John Ogrodniczuk looked at how men's ideas of masculinity served or hindered them during bouts of severe depression. Their findings shed light on risk factors and prevention strategies for suicide.

The authors analyzed qualitative data from interviews with 38 guys between 24 and 50 years of age living in Vancouver and Prince George. The participants were self-identified or were formally diagnosed with depression.

The analyze suggests that males can finest counter suicidal thoughts by connecting with other people - namely intimate partners and loved ones - to regain some stability and to secure emotional help from other people.

"Support from friends and connecting to other things including spirituality is often the conduit to men seeking professional help to overcome the suicidal thoughts that can accompany severe depression" says lead author Oliffe, an associate professor in the School of Nursing.

Men die by suicide at least three times more than ladies even though it's ladies who are diagnosed at twice the rate of men for depression. Guys aged 20-29 have the highest rate of suicide. Statistics Canada reports that in 2003, the last year for which data is obtainable, more than 2,900 guys committed suicide.

The investigators found that most study participants expressed a strong commitment to their families and turned away from suicide for the hurt and trauma it would cause loved ones.

"Here, men's strong sense of masculine roles and responsibility as a provider and protector enables men to hold on while seeking support to regain some self-control," says Oliffe.

But Ogrodniczuk says the "stoic warrior" ideal also presents a downside that may lead guys to shut down and look for escape. In these situations, analyze participants chose to mute their feelings or disconnect from others. They usually overused alcohol and other drugs.

"Instead of finding respite from their emotional, mental and physical pain, self-harm emerged as the most common outcome of these actions," says Ogrodniczuk, an associate professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry

The analyze received assistance from the Canadian Institutes of Health Study (CIHR)

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Initial Study To Show That Highly Variable Sleep Schedules Predict Elevated Suicide Risk

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Highly variable sleep schedules predict an elevated threat for suicide independent of depression in actively suicidal young adults, according to a investigation abstract presented Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC.

Results indicate that a sample of actively suicidal undergraduate students had a delayed mean bedtime of 2:08 a.m.; restricted total sleep time of 6.3 hours; and very variable sleep schedules, with time of mean sleep onset different by three several hours and time of sleep offset different by 2.8 several hours. Nonetheless, accounting for baseline depression severity, sleep variability was the only sleep measurement to individually predict increases in suicidal risk at one week and three weeks. Sleep irregularity also was the only sleep-related variable to predict greater mood lability, which in turn predicted elevated suicidal symptoms.

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Teens And Parents Need Help Identifying Suicidal Adolescents

Friday, January 15, 2010

Adolescents and parents need help recognizing that suicide is a problem in their own communities, as well as help identifying teens who are suicidal, according to the study, "Attitudes and Beliefs of Adolescents and Parents Regarding Adolescent Suicide," published in the February issue of Pediatrics (appearing online Jan. 11). In the United States in 2006, 1,771 children and adolescents ages 10 to 19 committed suicide, making suicide the third leading cause of death in this age group.

To design a better suicide prevention program, researchers set out to understand what interventions would be most effective. In focus groups in Chicago and Kansas City, both teenagers and their parents correctly identified many of the known risk factors for suicide, including mental illness, alcohol and substance abuse, relational or social loss, and hopelessness. However, study authors said it was concerning that some of the parents reported regular drug and alcohol use as being a normal part of adolescent development, rather than problem behavior.

Parents and teens suggested guns should be removed if an adolescent is known to be suicidal, but parents acknowledged they may not be able to identify a suicidal teen. Parents and teens didn't think suicide was a problem in their communities. All groups were interested in learning how to identify and intervene with a suicidal adolescent. Study authors conclude pediatricians should regularly screen all adolescents in their offices and encourage families to be open to discussing depression and suicide.

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Prevention of Suicide in low-and middle-income

Sunday, October 5, 2008

The international study of nearly 2000 people in Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and China shows that low-cost strategy to enter into contact with people who have attempted suicide previously, the risk of later suicide.

Given that suicide is one of the three leading causes of death in 15 to 34 years, this strategy has the potential to reduce economic and social losses of young people in their most productive years of life.


The study, co-author of the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention director Professor Diego De Leo, said that suicide is a further reduction to 2.2 percent of deaths among people with normal care at 0, 2 per cent of people who have contact with the additional reserved.

Interventions Agency, which is one hour briefing for suicidal behavior, risk factors, constructive coping strategies and transfer functions.

Even nine follow-up calls and visits to the doctor within 18 months after discharge the patient's emergency department.

"Many patients commit suicide requires good communication and relationships within his family and with other people," he told investigators.

The intervention not only helped to increase feelings of suicide attempts at communication, but also their skills in dealing with crises that could lead to suicidal behavior.

"In addition, regular monitoring of patient contacts makes sense, seen and heard someone," she said.

The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) said one advantage of the assistance that it requires minimal training or additional resources, and therefore suitable for use in low and middle - income.

According to WHO estimates, about 85 percent of suicides at low and medium incomes. In 2002, about 877,000 deaths a suicide.

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This is not expensive to prevent repeated attempts suicide

Thursday, September 4, 2008

The vast majority (85%) of suicide deaths occur in low and middle income countries. While rich industrialized countries to offer sophisticated psychotherapeutic treatment for poor countries have little to offer those who have attempted suicide.

The new findings, published recently show that poor countries can significantly improve the prevention of repeated suicide attempts. Enter training and support constant contact with people who attempt suicide, such as telephone conversations, can significantly reduce their deaths, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, a serious health hazard journals public.


"People commit suicide attempts are often in emergency rooms. But in the low-middle income countries where there are no complications, patients are processed after the treatment of wounds without resorting to mental health services," says author Fleischmann.

"But to patients with the information and subsequent telephone calls from further attempts can be prevented and lives", said, Fleischmann.

The study was conducted in Brazil, China, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Sri Lanka from January 2002 to October 2005. Read here.

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The first review of various methods of people worldwide to commit suicide

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Scottish murder and suicide rates, fueled by drink and drugs

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Alcohol and drug addiction means Scots, almost two times more likely to kill or their own lives, compared with people in England and Wales, published research shows.

Results of the National University of Manchester confidential investigation of the killings and suicides of people with mental disorders (NIR), also show that the number of psychiatric patients to commit murder or suicide was proportionally much higher in Scotland.

"Lessons for the mentally ill in Scotland report, in Scotland, raises these high mortality rates north of the border for alcohol and drugs, as among the population in general and mental health patients.

NCI examined all suicides and murders in the total population in Scotland, as well as those committed by persons in support mental health services, and compared their results for England and Wales.

Suicide rates in Scotland equate to 18.7 per 100000 population, compared with 10.2 per 100000 in England and Wales, while murder rates north of the border was 2.12 per 100000 people, compared with 1.23 at 100000 in England and Wales. North and South is the highest among young people, the report found.

"During the period of training - six years for suicide and five years for murder - there were about 5000 suicides, homicides and 500 in Scotland," said Louis Appleby, professor of psychiatry and director of the NCI. "But the survey showed that only 28% of people her own life and 12% of the murderers, recently mental health patients.

"It was a positive recent decline in suicides among the general population of Scotland, but the most striking features of Boards north of the border is much higher than that in England and Wales.

"Even murder in Scotland is significantly higher than in England and Wales. But unlike the performance of suicides, homicides domestic prices are high mainly because of the high prices in some parts of the country, namely Glasgow and Argyll and Clyde."

In Scotland, as in England, Wales and elsewhere in the report notes that the murder was a crime committed mostly young people, against young people. The Panel noted that in the cases studied, alcohol and drugs often took a weapon, and usually a knife or other sharp objects.

"The drugs and knives are dangerously confused, so that the political reaction to these deaths are due to focus on alcoholism and drug addiction among youth and bear arms sheet of young people," said Professor Appleby.

"The growing number of crimes, killing in recent years, is the result of an increase of killings of young people, mostly men under the age of 25 years, but most of them are not mentally ill. This is a public health approach should be focused on the murder of alcohol and drugs, mental health until the disease.

"Alcoholism and drug addiction on the basis of these results, and that seems to be an important contribution to the risk for mental health and society at large. The results indicate that alcohol and drugs in Scotland are high suicide and homicide, and how often occurring as background in our report, frightening. "

Of the 1373 patients in the report was suicide history of alcoholism in 785 cases on average 131 deaths a year, the stories of drug abuse in 522 cases and 87 deaths per year.

Of the 58 patients, reported murders, 41 were stories of alcoholism and drug abuse were 45. Of all the authors, whether patients, drug addiction and alcoholism are the most common diagnoses. In both suicide and murder, most of them are not under the control of passions.

"Our results confirm the view that alcohol and drugs are the most pressing problems in the field of mental health in Scotland and psychiatric care can play its role", said Professor Appleby, based in Manchester School of Medicine and Humanities.

"They must ensure that frontline medical staff are qualified and confident in the assessment and management of abuse that the development of services dedicated dual diagnosis, and to establish close relations with groups of drug addiction."

The report also makes the following recommendations for clinical care:

• Specialist mental health teams, outreach services for patients who are at risk of losing contact with caution


• Fundamentals follow discharge after hospital, that risk management in the cooperative and patient and community groups


• More intensive monitoring of patients recently hospitalized


• Withdrawal of ligature points patient stations


• Prevention of room air into the hall of improvements in environmental protection and strict control exits


• Carefully assess risk during the prior consent to discharge from hospital
  
• To improve mental health for young people who have greater access and early intervention


• Clinical positive approach to risk management in a dialogue with the public


• An analysis of the reasons for detention of offenders with severe mental illness.

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Army Suicides Increased By 13% In 2007

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The number of Army soldiers who committed suicide in 2007 increased by 13% over 2006 to 115, according to the 2008 Army Suicide Event Report released Thursday, the Baltimore Sun reports (Wood, Baltimore Sun, 5/30). The number represents the highest rate since the Army began tracking suicides in 1980 (Chicago Tribune, 5/29). According to the Army, the suicide rate among civilians is 19.5 in 100,000 people. Other Defense Department research has shown that suicides among all military personnel in Iraq occur at a rate of about 24 per 100,000 people (Wood, Baltimore Sun, 5/30).

According to Army records, 65% of the suicides were related to broken relationships and 37% occurred within 30 days of when the relationship ended (Zoroya, USA Today, 5/30). Fifty-three percent of soldiers who committed suicide were younger than age 25 and 57% were married, according to the report (Chicago Tribune, 5/29).

Thirty-two of the Army suicides occurred in Iraq, and four occurred in Afghanistan (USA Today, 5/30). The largest percentage of the soldiers who committed suicide did so during their first three months in Iraq or Afghanistan, and the largest percentage of attempted suicides occurred during the second quarter of deployment. Twenty-six percent of suicides occurred among soldiers who had never been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Fifty-two soldiers committed suicide in 2001, the year the war on terrorism began.

The report also found that 935 soldiers attempted suicide in 2007, compared with 948 in 2006 (USA Today, 5/30). In 2005, 85 Army soldiers committed suicide and 67 committed suicide in 2004, the AP/Washington Times reports (Jelinek, AP/Washington Times, 5/30). Lt. Col. Thomas Languirand, head of command policies and programs, said the 2008 suicide rate is comparable to last year (Chicago Tribune, 5/29).

Reaction

According to the Sun, "The rising incidences of suicides and severe stress are directly related to the rigors of what Bush administration officials call 'the Long War' in Iraq and Afghanistan" (Baltimore Sun, 5/30). Other contributing factors were the increased length of tours from 12 months to 15 months and multiple deployments (AP/Washington Times, 5/30). A study released this spring by U.S. command in Baghdad found that 17.9% of troops report acute stress, depression or anxiety, and 11% met the criteria for mild traumatic brain injury.

Army officers acknowledged that the data on military suicides and stress are incomplete, as soldiers who leave the Army and National Guard soldiers are not tracked. University of Maryland sociologist Jesse Harris, a retired Army officer, said researchers are "rather puzzled at the alarming rate [of suicide increases], and we are trying to get a grip on it." Army Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, assistant Army surgeon general, said, "The Army is committed to taking care of every soldier, regardless of medical illness, injury or psychological diagnosis." However, "there is more to be done" in the areas of suicide prevention training and other mental health care, she said.

Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general, acknowledged that the Army does not have the facilities and providers to care for all its soldiers. He said, "As a nation, our mental health capability is not adequate to the need," and the Army is experiencing the same problem. The Army has approved the hiring of more than 300 additional mental health professionals and has hired 180 of them, and the Pentagon has approved increasing spending on family support programs (Baltimore Sun, 5/30).

Broadcast Coverage
CNN's "Newsroom" on Thursday included coverage of the report (Starr, "Newsroom," CNN, 5/29).

NBC's "Nightly News" on Thursday included coverage of the report (Miklaszewski, "Nightly News," NBC, 5/29).

WBUR's "Here and Now" on Thursday included a discussion with Bryan Bender of the Boston Globe about the report ("Here and Now," WBUR, 5/29).

PTSD
In related news, McClatchy/Orlando Sentinel on Friday examined how "soldiers, veterans and their families are running into red tape and roadblocks when they try to use their military insurance to get treatment for ailments such as post-traumatic stress disorder." About 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with PTSD since 2003, the Pentagon reported earlier this week. According to McClatchy/Sentinel, "The deployment of hundreds of doctors and therapists to Iraq and Afghanistan and the shortage of military health care providers has forced patients at U.S. installations to wait for months for appointments -- and longer if they need to see a specialist."

At the same time, "civilian doctors and psychiatrists say they're often faced with tough decisions about whether to turn away patients on Tricare ... because its reimbursement rates are low and its claims process is cumbersome," McClatchy/Sentinel reports. According to McClatchy/Sentinel, some doctors opt to "volunteer their time and services rather than navigate Tricare's red tape for what may ultimately prove to be a small reimbursement for services" (Abdullah, McClatchy/Orlando Sentinel, 5/30).

Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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