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To care for kids' mental health, parents should talk less and listen more, studies say. Here's how

Research shows that teens are more likely to turn to their parents when they need support rather than peers or professionals. That’s according to a national campaign making resources available to families needing help.

May 08, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Andrea Mills leads a group of educators from the St. Luke School in Columbus through the Love Like Lexi Project curriculum during a training session for teachers in 2021. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com

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On 6th anniversary of daughter’s suicide, mom invites Columbus area to prevention event

On the sixth anniversary of her teenage daughter Lexi Webb’s death by suicide, Andrea Mills of Smiths Station and a group of supporters will conduct a free community event they hope will reach more people with the message they’ve been spreading.

February 04, 2025
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  • Mark Rice
 Lewisburg federal penitentiary in central Pennsylvania.

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DOJ watchdog: federal prison not doing enough to prevent inmate suicides

Lewisburg federal prison, a facility located in central Pennsylvania where thousands of inmates often pass through on their way to other federal institutions, was found to have problems with addressing mental health risks, healthcare quality, leaking infrastructure and employee conduct.

September 26, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. His fiancee, Edith Lisk (left), hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.

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  • Climate

He survived the water, but not the flood

Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. Now, his family hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.

September 17, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher
An IV bag hangs in the foreground with a blurred health care worker in the background.

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  • Mental Health

Health care workers facing mental stress, burnout have better protections under new Georgia law

The Medical Association of Georgia says help is on the way for physicians in Georgia who are still dealing with the strains of workplace challenges in the wake of the pandemic.

May 20, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Physicians who admit to mental health or addiction issues typically are required to share more details and submit to scrutiny such as monitoring or periodic drug tests.

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  • Mental Health

Doctors face huge stigma about mental illness. Now there's an effort to change that

Doctors have long dealt with perceived threats to their careers if they are open about mental illness and addiction. Now about two dozen states are changing licensing forms to lessen the stigma.

February 07, 2024
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  • Priyanka Dayal McCluskey
Law enforcement surrounds the entrance of Atrium Health Navicent in Macon, Ga. on Jan. 17, 2024. It is the only American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma verified Level I trauma center in middle Georgia

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One dead after Macon hospital standoff

Overnight in Macon, a man fired a gun inside the city’s largest hospital and barricaded himself in a restroom, holding law enforcement off for hours before taking his own life.

January 18, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Students from Launch Charter School march on Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 2 last year in Brooklyn, NY.

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  • Children's Health

'Say Something' tip line in schools flags gun violence threats, study finds

A new study in Pediatrics shows that an anonymous tip line for students is catching some gun threats before they can escalate. It is part of an effort to treat gun violence as a public health problem.

January 17, 2024
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Participants walk in support and in memory of those lost, during American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Walk at Montrose Harbor on October 21, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Health

Suicide rates rose in 2022 overall but declined for teens and young adults

Provisional data from 2022 showed a bright spot in the trend of rising suicides in the U.S.

November 29, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Jess Hegstrom, a public health worker for Lewis and Clark County in Montana, tries to start conversations about suicide risk at gun shows. "I'm not here to waggle my finger at you," she says.

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  • Mental Health

Storing guns away from home could reduce suicides, but there are legal hurdles

New ideas like "safe storage maps" show gun owners where to put their firearms in safekeeping if a mental health crisis happens. The idea has support, but obstacles are in the way in some states.

September 06, 2023
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  • Aaron Bolton

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  • Health

Teen with life-threatening depression finally found hope. Then insurance cut her off

Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable.

April 18, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
A sign calling attention to drug overdoses is posted in a gas station on the White Earth reservation in Ogema, Minn.. A new study shows that early deaths due to addiction and suicide have impacted American Indian and Alaska Native communities far more than white communities.

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  • Health

Native Americans left out of 'deaths of despair' research

During the time that deaths from addiction and suicide among white Americans rose by about 9%, deaths among Native Americans shot up by about 30%, a new study shows.

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Austin McEntyre is shown in a yearbook photo from Heard County High School

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A bullied West Georgia teen died by suicide. Now his mom is speaking out so others get help

Lisa McEntyre is talking about her son's suicide to spread the word about being kind and seeking help.

November 21, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
A U.S. Army Airborne Ranger soldier

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Three Army Rangers have died since July at Hunter Army Airfield, officials say. Two were suicides

Three soldiers from the 75th Ranger Regiment have died between July 31 and Oct. 6 at Hunter Army Airfield. 

October 14, 2022
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  • Jake Shore and
  • Margaret Coker
Stephanie Basey

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  • News

How researchers are getting farmers to talk about mental health

Researchers across Georgia are trying to address mental health in the agriculture community, but the stigma associated with the topic is a major obstacle.

August 09, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
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