Elderly Suicide Increases with Age

Reviewed here.

Air Force Like Program at U of Illinois and at Cornell Reduces Suicide Rate by 40%

Referrals of students threatening suicide to just 4 sessions helped reduce the rate. Presumably, those with serious disorders stayed in treatment after the first mandatory four visits.

Here, and here.

Another Suicider Kills First

Here.

$13 Million To Brothers of Woman Who Committed Suicide Day After Refused Treatment for Lack of Insurance

Mentioned in this article, toward the bottom. I don't know how treatment would have prevented a suicide the next day. Only long term treatment can prevent suicide. I would like to get more facts about the case.

Hunt for Suicide Gene

Suicidality likely gets transmitted independent of the transmission of depression.

Efforts to find this gene reviewed here.

FDA Warning Decreases the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Depression

The sole effective prevention of suicide is adequate, long term treatment. As a result of the irresponsible FDA warnings, diagnosis of depression in kids decreased by a third. The use of anti-depressants dropped by over 50%.

The Black Box Warning the FDA Failed to Put on all Anti-depressants

There is a valid black box warning to put on all anti-depressants. Naturally, the craven academics have failed to put it on. It supercedes their idiotic, PC, and cowardly warning about suicidality.

All anti-depressants, including the most sedative, amitriptylline, cause about 5% of patients to get agitated. This applies to dosage increases as well, even no agitation took place on lower doses.

This is a form of akathesia, from the inhibition of dopamine by increased serotonin tone in the first 24 hours.

All patients require this warning. It worsens over time, in the vast majority of people. If agitated the first or second day, stop the anti-depressant. Return to get another anti-depressant.

If someone is very depressed and suicidal, add very uncomfortable restlessness and agitation, some may injure themselves to seek relief.

A tiny number of patients, such as 1 in a 1000, reported an onset of suicidal ideas after a specific anti-depressants, long before this irresponsible warning. All in my practice, stopped the anti-depressant on their own, returned for an alternative.