In January 2025, Norway published the largest cohort study to date exploring the relationship between gambling disorder (GD) and suicide mortality. Led by researcher Joakim…
Billie Eilish’s haunting single “bury a friend” grapples with themes of fear, dissociation, and mental anguish. Released in 2019 as part of her debut album…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 720,000 people die by suicide each year, and it remains the third leading cause of death…
Loneliness has a way of distorting reality—making you feel like no one sees you, no one understands. Twenty One Pilots’ Friend, Please is a raw,…
Having lost a friend to suicide, British singer and songwriter Tom Walker experienced the feelings of guilt, depression, and self-doubt that so many relatives of…
The popular Youtube channel Button Poetry showcases a poem written by Nora Cooper entitled I Won’t Write You Obituary. The powerful poem discusses the topic…
[trigger warning: talk of war and PTSD] Melissa Walker shares the powerful story of military members and the horrors they go through while in battle,…
Kitty Westin highlights that many of the key people we know and look up to such as Winston Churchhill, Angelina Jolie, Micheal Phelps, Lady Gaga,…
The popular television show BoJack Horseman incorporates themes of mental health and suicide prevention into its characters’ lives. The View from Halfway Down was a…
Steph Slack can still remember exactly where she was in 2010 when she received the heartbreaking phone call from her dad about her beloved uncle….
“The S Word” is a documentary by Lisa Klein which follows the stories of suicide attempt survivors as told through the eyes of the photographer…
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell says the poems he wrote were rarely addressed to anyone in particular. An exception was made, however, when a student of…
On December 11, 2020, the Canadian House of Commons voted unanimously in favour of MP Todd Doherty’s motion calling on the federal government to establish…
Greg Macdonald is a Canadian entrepreneur and underground hip-hop artist by the name Problematic who talks openly about his mental health challenges through his passion;…
In an article in a Canadian daily, The Globe and Mail, Oliver Moore reported that during 2016, 21 suicide attempts occurred on Toronto’s subway system….
Suicide is a global issue, but the situation is especially egregious in South Korea which has the highest suicide rate among the OECD countries. River…
Andrea Gibson is a spoken word artist and activist who writes with intense passion about mental illness, bullying, and social tragedy. In her award-winning poem,…
The suicide of a celebrity comes as a shock to fans. In the wake of Robin Williams’ death, there was an outpouring of grief. But…
