Here's a post from OnSugar blog My DISFunkshion. This is just sad, sad, sad. According to a survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, 41 percent of transgendered people have attempted to end their lives. What's the national suicide attempt average? A paltry (in comparison) 1.6 percent. The survey reports that, in general, Read more

“I contemplated suicide. I will not give up on life. There's so many people that will never get the chance to have their voice heard . . . I do it for them.” —"Philanthropist of culture” (his words) and Twitterer extraordinaire (our words) confessed to contemplating suicide during the Los Angeles screening of Runaway, a short film he wrote, directed, and starred in. Read more

Since the economy took a downturn two years ago, suicide rates have been on the rise. In 2008 rates began increasing in the US for the first time in 10 years and the UK is seeing the same trend. But suicide rates in Japan have been the highest among developed countries — the fourth highest in the world — for years. Japan's financial crisis of the '90s explains a lot, but not why the Japanese Read more

According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, one out of seven Latina teenagers attempts suicide. Psychologist Dr. Luis Zayas of Washington University, who has spent the last 25 years studying Latina teens, believes that this rate is so high because of the teens' troubled relationships with their mothers. Usually the child of poor immigrant parents, the troubled teen is caught Read more

Women everywhere fight for their rights — but women in Afghanistan have it particularly bad. BBC reporter Jane Corbin was invited by a French charity, based in Herat, Afghanistan, that treats women who have self-immolated. Most of these women set fire to themselves to escape a forced marriage or a violent husband. In the photo above, a woman comforts her 20-year-old daughter in the hospital. Read more

I'm sure you've all had a bad case of the Mondays, but it turns out the first day of the work week isn't as deadly as the middle. In a recent study published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, almost 25 percent of reported suicides occurred on Wednesday as compared to 14 percent on Mondays or Saturdays, the two days with the second-highest suicide rates. The researchers think Read more