Machine learning over suicide risk assessment?
This is a proof of concept study, which data mined discharge letters from two Harvard affiliated hospitals, looking words for positive (happy) and negative (sad) value, and predicting risk of suicide...
View ArticlePoor intelligence is associated with suicide.
A correlation is not causation, but this paper (read when screening for a systematic analysis, and rejected from same because of the study design) this is a data matching study that looks at...
View ArticleIs this generation fragile or cosseted?
Yesterday I was having lunch with a colleague. We both do sessions in the psychiatric emergency room. And we are seeing young men, acutely suicidal, following rejection by a partner. We both reflected...
View ArticleWhy one should not admit all who self harm.
Every time there is a suicide there is a criticism that the person should have been admitted. The trouble is that the baseline rate of death, even in those who have made an attempt, is too low to...
View ArticleThree papers, three pictures.
I was putting together a set of slides for teaching tonight and inadvertently ran into some recent data. All these papers are open source, and I will be giving references. The first, by Zhou and...
View ArticleThe failure of community care?
There are two groups of people who are at very high risk if suicide: Those who have made a suicide attempt Those who have been discharged from a psychiatric ward This paper is a meta analysis of...
View ArticleUnequal yoke and suicide: Norway Data.
This paper makes me reflect on scripture. It may not be race that matters as much as religion. It is not as much race that matters here, I submit, but the unequal yoke. Norway was Christian and is of...
View ArticleSuicide prevention: is it resources?
A hypotheses in JAMA psychiatry recently was that the number of beds (a proxy, albeit a poor one, for Mental Health Funding) has cecrased at the same time the suicide rate has increased. This is a...
View ArticleAnxiety is not a risk factor for suicide, PTSD included?
There are many who will look at completed suicide and consider that any mental health disorder caused it. There are others who work from theory and consider that those who are frightened may be at...
View ArticleSuicide in my email
Correlation A new report projects more than 1.6 million deaths due to drugs, alcohol, and suicide among people living in the United States during next decade (2016 to 2025). That would represent a 60%...
View ArticleAdministration and Lectionary Collide.
After the last couple of days, life intrudes again. The sermon at equippers church was about praise getting you out of a jail. Needed, but that night there was a storm in the Midwest. And the power...
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