The Casual Sadism of Suicide Prevention
Most efforts are aimed at kicking the can down the road, not reducing suicidal feelings
There was another article about suicide prevention in The NY Times today, on the remarkably long journey to get a suicide barrier constructed on the Golden Gate Bridge, which has been a temple to killing one’s self for decades. Back in 2019, the NYT opinion section—with a psychiatrist writing— referred to “the empty promise of suicide prevention.” I …
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