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SUICIDE PREVENTION

Wendi Wheeler was going through a dark time in May when she spotted Jay Dagny, a North Dakota State University student, holding a sign with the words "You are loved" at Eighth and Main in Moorhead.
From the editorial: "The lifeline’s administrators can look at this moment and all the surprising sudden feedback not as a rejection or cancellation but ... as a chance for improvements so it can even more effectively deliver crisis services while reducing the stigma surrounding suicide and mental health conditions."
"Minding Our Elders" columnist Carol Bradley Bursack hears from a reader whose friend, a longtime caregiver for his wife with dementia, died by suicide.
From the editorial: Starting in the fall, system administrators say they’ll begin requiring a supervisor to concur before a crisis counselor can notify the police. That should help, but social media sites are filling up now with warnings to stay away, which suggest that further delays could cause a system established with the best of intentions to fail for lack of public acceptance.

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Large randomized trial found outreach via electronic messaging was no better and sometimes worse than usual care.

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