Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, founding director of the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care UT Southwestern Medical Center, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why suicide rates among Texas youth are on the rise.
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Mourning a loved one is complicated by suicide
Laura Trujillo shares the shock she faced when her mother took her own life, the dark secret she had to plumb to move forward, and where she ultimately found peace.
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Mourning a loved one is complicated by suicide
Laura Trujillo shares the shock she faced when her mother took her own life, the dark secret she had to plumb to move forward, and where she ultimately found peace.
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Could An Algorithm Predict A Suicide?
Harper’s magazine senior editor Will Stephenson joins us to discuss the emerging field of suicidology, which hopes to explain the act and its precursors, while gaining a deeper understanding of its complexity.
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Filtering Out The Pain: College Students, Mental Health And Social Media
ESPN commentator Kate Fagan joins us to tell the story of Madison Holleran and how a toxic mix of depression and the pressure to perform ended her life.
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Gun Deaths In America
This hour, we’ll explore the numbers behind gun deaths in the U.S. – and talk about how they can be reduced – with Ben Casselman, a senior editor and the chief economics writer for the website FiveThirtyEight.
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The Strange Death of José de Jesús
This hour, we’ll talk about the death of José de Jesús in the Eloy Immigrant Detention Center last year with Maria Hinojosa, host of “Latino USA.
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The Pain Behind Self-Inflicted Wounds
This hour, we’ll talk about what to do if someone you know is in need of help with counselor Lori Vann, author of ‘A Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Injury.’
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The History Of Hanging
This hour, we’ll talk with the author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
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The Mystery of a Mother's Suicide
From the archives: How does someone cope with the loss of a parent and how does a parent’s suicide reverberate through a child’s life?
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