U.S. Suicide Deaths Rose in 2022, C.D.C. Estimates Say

The estimated number of suicide deaths in the United States rose to nearly 50,000 in 2022, according to provisional data released on Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The total would be an increase of approximately 2.6 percent since 2021. The C.D.C. estimates the overall number of deaths to be 49,449 but […]

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Heat Singes the Mind, Not Just the Body

If you find that the blistering, unrelenting heat is making you anxious and irritable, even depressed, it’s not all in your head. Soaring temperatures can damage not just the body but also the mind. As heat waves become more intense, more frequent and longer, it has become increasingly important to address the impact on mental […]

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E.R. Visits for Teenage Girls Surged During the Pandemic

As the coronavirus pandemic dragged through its second year, an increasing number of American families were so desperate to get help for depressed or suicidal children that they brought them to emergency rooms. A large-scale analysis of private insurance claims shows that this surge in acute mental health crises was driven largely by a single […]

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Substance Abuse Is Climbing Among Seniors

When Dr. Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist, meets new patients at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, he talks with them about the usual health issues that older adults face: chronic conditions, functional ability, medications and how they’re working. He asks, too, about their use of tobacco, […]

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Why Some Americans Buy Guns

In 2020, while many communities were under Covid lockdowns, protesters were flooding the streets and economic uncertainty and social isolation were deepening, Americans went on a shopping spree. For firearms. Some 22 million guns were sold that year, 64 percent more than in 2019. More than eight million of them went to novices who had […]

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Maternity’s Most Dangerous Time: After New Mothers Come Home

Sherri Willis-Prater’s baby boy was 2 months old, and she was about to return to her job at a school cafeteria in Chicago. But as she walked up the short flight of stairs to her kitchen one evening, she nearly collapsed, gasping for breath. At the hospital, Ms. Willis-Prater, who was 42 at the time, […]

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The U.S. Has a New Crisis Hotline: 988. Is It Prepared for a Surge in Calls?

Americans in distress have a new number to dial for help — 988, a revamped National Suicide Prevention Lifeline that is being billed as the 911 of mental health. The number, set to go live on Saturday and backed by more than $400 million in federal funding, is intended to meet a rising tide of […]

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988, la nueva Línea Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio en EE. UU.

No todos los estados han creado equipos de crisis locales que puedan responder a una emergencia de salud mental, aunque hay un impulso para que más zonas del país adopten un modelo como el de la Línea de Crisis y Acceso de Georgia, dijo Wesolowski, que permite a los empleados de la línea de atención […]

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Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.

To back its position, the W.H.O. highlights stark words from Thomas R. Insel, who from 2002 to 2015 was head of the National Institute of Mental Health, the largest funder of mental-health research in the world: “I spent 13 years at N.I.M.H. really pushing on the neuroscience and genetics of mental disorders, and when I […]

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‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens

How the reporter Matt Richtel spoke to adolescents and parents for this series In mid-April, I was speaking to the mother of a suicidal teenager whose struggles I’ve been closely following. I asked how her daughter was doing. Not well, the mother said: “If we can’t find something drastic to help this kid, this kid […]

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The First (and Last) Time She Didn’t Come Home

The last time my mother and I traveled together was on a college visit to these mountains the summer before she died. We had driven the Blue Ridge Parkway and eaten at a restaurant where marijuana wafted through the air. Barefoot in a stream with bouquets of rhododendron in bloom around us and smooth-worn stones […]

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Surgeon General Warns of Youth Mental Health Crisis

The United States surgeon general on Tuesday warned that young people are facing “devastating” mental health effects as a result of the challenges experienced by their generation, including the coronavirus pandemic. The message came as part of a rare public advisory from the nation’s top physician, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, in a 53-page report noting […]

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