“Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.” YearsMeanStatesSchoolSufferingLostUnitedClassUnited StatesStudyGreaterHigherDoctorsSuicideRatePopulationIllnessDuesAccessMedicalMoodCommitMediumsExcellentDisorderPhysiciansManicMedical SchoolDepressiveYear OneMood Disorders Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleNeedsLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.” FactsProblemKidsSchoolParentStreetsCoupleGaySuicideTransgenderGay CouplesPda Author:Steven Petrow
“One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.” SchoolHigh SchoolMy FriendsSuicideCommittedTragic Author:Winona Ryder
“In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningSchoolPastAchieveYouthExpectationsHigh SchoolSuicideTrainHigh Expectations Author:James Franco
“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.” KnowsHardSchoolMy OwnShareMiddleHigh SchoolFairsSuicideCommittedHard TimesGood FriendBest FriendPersonal ExperiencesBulliedMiddle SchoolFair ShareReally Good Friends Author:Brittany Snow
“Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business” SchoolGrowsDyingStudentsLessonsSuicidePatientFinalsBoundsCheatingLeapUnfinishedExamAssistingUnfinished BusinessFinal Exams Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.” IfsMeanChildrenSchoolReadingNationsJusticeDealsEducationDiversitySocial JusticeSuicidePrisonInequalityDescriptionMore MoneyBentLiteracy Author:Jonathan Kozol
“School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.” HumansSchoolHumanityCommunitySimpleRaceEconomicCrimeDevelopmentReturnTaxesPerformancesRelationSuicideWorkersRateProductivityCampaignsFinanceOur FamilyAffectedPhilanthropyFamily And FriendsNeighbourRace RelationsPublic HealthComplianceClinicalsHuman HappinessCo WorkerCensusCommunity DevelopmentCrime RatesCampaign FinanceClinical Depression Author:Robert D. Putnam
“When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan.” PeopleHumansWellsChildrenLittlesWarSchoolGirlSexHurtSacrificeHonorSuicideKillingBurningWitchAfghanistanMinorsHomosexualSystematicBombingSuppressionCleansingCrusadesEthnic CleansingInquisitionBlowing UpArranged MarriageHonor Killing Author:Bill Maher
“Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.” KnowsWellsUseShowsBigsKidsSchoolTogetherSexStudyDrinkDrugEatingTraditionSuicideSmokeDisorderVegetablesDelayForksEating DisorderHaving Sex Author:Nancy Gibbs
“I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.” YearsPersonsSchoolGaySuicideCommitMiserableYaleFreshmanFreshman Year Author:Larry Kramer
“As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated. If they make it that far.” SchoolWorkEducationCreativitySocietyCollegeHealthDepressionExpectationsStressPressureSuicideUniversityReformTestingSchoolingSad TruthDemandsUniversitiesStandardized Testing Author:Candy Schulman
“I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the caption "it could be worse!" "Just tell me whatever it is you're thinking," Mrs. Paulsen says. "Whatever is going through your mind right now." "I hope they didn't actually drop a cat in the toilet to get that picture," I choke out. "...Pardon?" "Nothing. Sorry.” MotivationalSchoolFunnyGirlPsychologyStrangeSadDepressionCatSuicideSorryPhotographGuidanceTeenCryingWeirdKittenQuirkyPictureWorseFelinePhotoToiletPosterCounsellor Book:The World Without Us Source: The World Without Us