Tag: Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness month

May is Mental Health Awareness month

May is Mental Health Awareness month

Yes, this relates to COVID

Let’s kick off this week with a couple of basically-related items, and one general announcement:
 
  1. Hey, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy agrees with me on loneliness! Thanks for listening, Dr. Murthy!1
  2. If you didn’t see my piece on suicide in this week’s WCC eNews, you might want to give it a read. It adds more detail on one aspect of the subject of mental health that I don’t have space to flesh out here. It’s worth reading, I promise.
  3. This newsletter is too long newsletter as it is, and this might make it even too longer. I’ve added a new section at the bottom with assorted, general health-related items. I have a lot of information crossing my desk, as you might guess. A lot of it is worthy, but not quite enough for an entire newsletter column. Hence the list. You can also find much of the same information on the CHP Facebook page.

Suicide by the numbers

Suicide by the numbers

Suicide by the numbers

And what you can do about it
After two years of decline, suicide rates in the United States showed alarming increases in 2022. They are now almost back to pre-pandemic highs.
 
When I say alarming increases, I mean alarming: