Hello there… I wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone and I remembered that though the holidays are the best time of the year for some, it can also be the worse time of the year. We have higher incidents of suicide during the holidays than any other time of the year. So, I wanted [...]

I just read on a couple of blogs that Kanye recently admitted to contemplating suicide. I want to make a clarification that contemplating or thinking about suicide is not the act itself. Artists are emotional creatures by nature. We experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Things that a non-emotional person sees [...]

Last week was a busy week– so busy that two teens in Northern Virginia who killed themselves in a suicide pact went largely unnoticed. But, in catching up in my reading, I found in The Washington Post that Desiree Patrick, 17 and Quirinius Williams, 18 apparently died of gunshot wounds in the attic of her [...]

I recently came across an article on www.cnn.com that stated that there is a high rate of Latina teens contemplating suicide. Since I know my readers come from all backgrounds, I figure I’d share parts of the story. According to the CDC, 1 in 7 Latina teens consider suicide. A psychologist that was interviewed in [...]

I have to commend People magazine for its May 18th issue which featured the article Bullied to Death? : Two Boys, Two Towns, Two Tragedies. The article detailed how two boys, Carl Walker-Hoover, 11 and Jaheem Herrera, 11 both committed suicided within 10 days of each other. The common factor in both of their suicides [...]