The Julia Buencamino Project: How Nonie and Shamaine are moving on by reaching out
Julia’s suicide a year ago devastated them, but ‘We want to make something meaningful out of this experience, and we hope that, we being actors, people would listen’
Julia’s suicide a year ago devastated them, but ‘We want to make something meaningful out of this experience, and we hope that, we being actors, people would listen’
The Natasha Goulbourn Foundation (NGF) has extended its search for a 40-second animated digital video that would encourage those suffering from depression to seek help and, possibly, to call its
The past two years, there have been one too many deaths by suicide in high schools, colleges and universities. Most of them happened in Metro Manila, but a number of cases
Depression is real, and suicide is a subject that’s very personal to me.
The Ashley Madison hack has sparked “spin off” crimes including extortion and may have led to two suicides, Canadian police said Monday, as the adultery website’s parent company offered a sizeable reward for leads on the culprits.
Being beautifully bipolar can be messy sometimes—we do things we shouldn’t do, say things we shouldn’t say. In our depressions we push people away, try to save them from being engulfed in the darkness that has consumed us. This mood disorder causes us to do a whole lot of sh-t we shouldn’t do. If you are also beautifully bipolar, you understand.
The recent suicide of a young actress once again brings to the forefront the subject of teenage depression. Yes, depression is possible in both teenagers and children.
As the moving force behind the Citizens’ Network for Psychosocial Response (CNETPSR), a loose multisector coalition of mental health professionals and NGOs engaged in psychosocial interventions, Dr. June Pagaduan-Lopez, a noted psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry, and stress and trauma expert, was among the first volunteers to hit Tacloban in January 2014.
They say death or bad news comes in threes. Lately I’ve been inclined to believe this, as there have been too many untoward incidents occurring in the country. Sometimes I wonder if there has always been this much violence and death around us—or has respect for life and humanity reached a new record low?
“I almost stabbed myself, but I thought about God, wondering if he would accept me if I committed suicide. So I prayed; afterwards I dropped the knife and cried in my bed until I fell asleep,” says a young respondent.
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