Job pressures and a drive for perfection all contribute to mental health issues among doctors and medical residents, but many are hesitant to acknowledge they are struggling.
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‘Patrick Melrose’ Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch is a “Narcissistic, Schizoid, Suicidal Alcoholic”
Benedict Cumberbatch has made a career off of playing charming, troubled geniuses — though in Patrick Melrose he’s leaving off the “genius.” Based off of Edward St. Aubyn’s award-winning series of novels, Patrick Melrose is a scathing examination of British decadent aristocracy, adapted into a five-part miniseries by Sky Atlantic and Showtime. And aside from the perfect casting […]
Artificial intelligence has learned to spot suicidal tendencies from brain scans
Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Clinicians normally have few tools to identify suicidal people at risk. A new machine-learning technique using words could help identify those suffering from suicidal thoughts. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 15 and 34 in the United States, and clinicians have limited tools to identify those […]
Nuclear clouds & flames: More sabre-rattling from N. Korea, threatening ‘suicidal’ Japan
Published time: 3 Oct, 2017 08:16 North Korea vowed to make “nuclear clouds” over Japan, which had called for more pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs. It has also said that in case of a nuclear war, Japan will be immediately “engulfed in flames.” Read more The North described the behavior of […]
‘Suicidal’ McDonald’s parody account suspended by Twitter
Published time: 31 Jul, 2017 15:39 Twitter has suspended a McDonald’s parody account after a string of suicidal messages posted to its timeline inspired a wave of responses from users who believed the account to be real. The unverified @Mc_DonaldsHK account, which claimed to be the official feed of McDonald’s Hong Kong, first began tweeting […]
The state of global nuclear weapons today, and why North Korean tests would be suicidal
Jim Lo Scalzo – Pool/Getty Images US President Trump has reversed his stance on a number of foreign policy issues, including NATO, Russia, and China. This leaves citizens in the United States and worldwide more unsure than ever of what to expect from the coming months and years. Nuclear bombs have a strange quality: They […]
‘No one is going to come to your funeral’: Police investigate social media messages to suicidal youth
A grief-stricken mother from a northern Ontario First Nation is sharing the hate-filled social media messages her 12-year-old daughter received on the day of her death by suicide, in hopes of saving the lives of other girls in her community. CBC | Health News
