The Dangers of Misdiagnosed Depression
	Depression has slowly turned into one of the staple conditions of our times: it affects people of all ages, backgrounds, lifestyles and nationalities, with about 121 million people worldwide currently suffering from depression and fewer than 25% of them having access to effective treatment. Not only is depression among the leading causes of disability worldwide, but about 80% of suicide deaths occur in sufferers of major depression. [AD ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asthma Increases Risk of Suicide
	Asthma is a chronic condition of the respiratory system which manifests a rapidly increasing prevalence in the developed world. Indeed, one in four urban children in modern developed societies is suffering from this disease, which involves an inflammation of the airways in response to a number of external triggers such as poor air quality, dust, tobacco smoke and many others. Asthma is, of course, not restricted to children, and ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Mom May Spend 20 Years in Prison
	The short story so far goes something like this: a 13-year-old girl who met a 16-year-old boy on the social networking service MySpace fell in love with him after chatting on the website. The 49-year-old mom of the boy got involved into the relationship and posed as her son while chatting with the girl. After several days of chatting, the mother, who continued to claim she was her son, told the girl she wanted to break up with he ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Anorexia Boosts the Risk of Suicide
	Anorexia is not necessarily an issue exclusively connected to food ingestion. More than an eating disease, it is a mental problem. A new research published in the Psychosomatic Medicine medical journal connects anorexia nervosa with an increased risk of suicide. "Suicidal ideas and behaviors by anyone with anorexia nervosa should not be overlooked as something that will just pass. Suicidal gestures should be considered v ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Abuse Causes a Suicidal Switch in Brain Gene Activity
	An abused child does not have only an impaired behavior, but also a structurally different brain. That happens because early child abuse appears to permanently change gene expression in the brain, as pointed by a postmortem investigation of suicide victims, recently published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. It is clear that we are the result of gene interaction and of the environment. External factors may determine which ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Internet Suicide Machine Kills Australian Elder
	As if death by suicide wasn't bad enough, an Australian man from Queensland decided to build a suicide machine which would do the job for him. 81-year-old Pete Tovey took the plans of the machine from the Internet, built the rig, then shot himself to death. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, the device consisted of a handgun and an electric jig saw. The police officers at the scene of the incident said that indeed the man ... [read more >>]
	22 March 2008, 07:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More People Commit Suicide than Get Killed
	Indeed, it is more catchy to watch the deaths committed by a suicidal terrorist or the crime of a psychopath, while ignoring your neighbor who threw himself from the 9th floor. Anyway, he was old/depressed/alcoholic. But an expert has signaled that, annually, more people commit suicide than are killed in wars, terrorist attacks and homicides. "There are more than one million people who die by suicide each year in the wor ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Internet Suicide Case Has a History of Charges Not Being Made
	The case that circled the world and mesmerized the media for the past year and a half has seen its final decision being made today. Impersonators of the woman claimed to have staged the hoax that convinced 13 year old Megan Meier to commit suicide will not be prosecuted. After the decision to not charge Lori Drew for her actions, a blog was set up by people outside of Missouri (where it all went down), entitled "Megan Ha ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Internet to Blame for Suicides in South Wales Last Year?
	In the long list of police denials, we can now include this one: they have openly said that there is no Internet suicide cult but officers are actively checking the email, online chats and SMS exchanged by the teens who decided that it was all to much to bear. Although taking your own life is a great means of natural selection, when somebody ends up resorting to it, there must be something really wrong. I’m not inventing the wheel, but app ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Vows to Kill Herself
	Things are apparently getting more and more desperate in the Britney universe. The trouble is popwreck is slowly plunging into madness, losing track of her own actions and threatening to kill herself rather than allow her concerned family to commit her to a mental hospital, where she could maybe get all the help she needs. "They're not sending me to the nut house" she reportedly shouted at a friend to whom she was ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Subpoenaed for 13-Year-Old Girl’s Suicide?
	The biggest social network in the world, MySpace, has allegedly been subpoenaed along with others, according to "The New York Times", in connection to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier in October 2006. This has been not confirmed by Thomas Mrozak, a spokesman for the United States attorney in Los Angeles, but "The NY Times" reported, citing unnamed sources, that the investigation would determine whether ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cyber Bullying Rising at an Alarming Tempo
	It’s out of the streets and into our homes. That would be one way to accurately describe the way things are at the moment when it comes to bullying. One from ten teenagers has been subject to it at least once in his/her life, while others have been constantly targeted by nasty email, text messaging and online chat, as US researchers have found out. The rise in percentage goes up to an astounding 50 percent, compared to the yea ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 08:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Girl Suicide Brings New Laws
	Because a 13-year-old girl committed suicide a few weeks ago after she broke up with her virtual MySpace friend, the Missouri authorities decided to promote a new law that will make the online harassment a crime. According to the Houston Chronicle, the maximum penalty for this kind of illegal activity brings 90 days in prison and a $500 fine. "The ordinance outlaws harassment using electronic communication, which includes th ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

13-Year-Old Girl Committed Suicide Due To MySpace Break Up
	MySpace and Facebook, the two top services when it comes to social networking, have an impressive influence over its registered members and we all know that. But listen to this: a 13-year-old girl committed suicide after Josh, another registered user, told her she’s a bad person and the world would be better without her. Megan Meier met Josh on MySpace and, after one month of chatting, she was shocked to find out that the boy wan ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Reese Witherspoon Will Make You Kill Yourself
	Ryan Phillippe admitted he seriously thought about killing himself after his split from ex-wife Reese Witherspoon. The divorce between the pair (who have two children together and share custody) was finalized last month, and it sounds like Phillippe had a rough time getting over the breakup, as he stated that things got so bad for him that he even considered taking his own life because he couldn't stop crying and vomiting. ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wino's Hubby Stays in Jail - May Attempt Suicide
	I'm still a bit reluctant to actually say I'm feeling sorry for Amy Wino's husband, who is currently in jail and it seems that he will be staying put in the clink for at least another couple of weeks. I am definitely feeling sorry for the troubled singer, though, for falling for such a guy. The fact is, many people (especially friends of Amy's) have expressed hopes that while Blake Fielder Civil is away doing jail time, ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 06:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Computer Simulation Shows the Effectiveness of a Suicide Bomber Based on Crowd Configuration
	You may not be eager to blow yourself up to "get" 72 virgins, while murdering tens of innocent people around you. But others will do it, in the name of religion, justice and so on. A recent computer simulation has assessed just how the crowd's behavior influences the number of victims a pedestrian suicide bomber takes with him. The work will be presented on Nov. 27 at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulat ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 07:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Suicide Site? You Might Go To Prison, Dude!
	This is a pretty interesting piece of news. Let me tell you the short story so far: Kazunari Saito, 33-year-old guy, created an Internet suicide webpage which was debating suicide methods with the visitors of the site. Quite weird, you might say, but there are a lot of similar websites out there with numerous fans. Sayaka Nishizawa, 21-year-old, contacted Kazunari Saito in order to suggest a way to suicide. Obviously, because he ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Doherty Tried to Kill Himself
	For some reason, people seem to find this particular piece of news less interesting than, for example, Britney showing off her coochie again. No, I was just kidding – I mean, no one on Earth could possibly wish anything bad for Pete Doherty, and we're all ears whenever any news comes about his latest exploits. I mean, this guy is just to die for – literally, and his life is much more of a mess that we could ever expect from other big ... [read more >>]
	08 October 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Is It That 4 Times More Men Than Women Commit Suicide?
	"Men come from Mars, and women from Venus", that's why they feel and behave differently. A new University of Western Sydney research showed that current depression treatments are not very successful with men as they are developed targeting especially women. "Men and women cope with and receive treatment for depression in distinct ways. Australia's suicide rate currently shows men are four times more ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Antidepressants Boost Suicidal Rates?
	The first step towards suicidal is depression. Paradoxically, antidepressants can boost a suicide risk in some persons. Now it is believed that two genes linked to chemical signaling in the brain are possible culprits for this. Few years ago researches started to point that the antidepressant drugs rose the suicide risk in some adolescents and children. In 2003, UK forbade the use in minors of selective serotonin reuptake inh ... [read more >>]
	01 October 2007, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Owen Wilson Did Slash His Wrists, But There Was No Drug Overdose
	It's no surprise that in the wake of Owen Wilson's (thankfully) failed suicide attempt last week a stream of controversy and speculation issued. It was, unfortunately, only a matter of time until people started pointing fingers and searching for what could have caused such a tragedy. Among all the speculation, no one really paid too much attention to Owen's desire to be left alone to heal – but I'm not even su ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cellular Addict Commits Suicide after Argument with Husband
	A 22 year-old woman has committed suicide after being scolded by her husband because she used to spend too much time talking on the mobile phone. After the reprimands, she went into her bedroom and hanged herself from the ceiling. The mobile phone had been a permanent cause for arguments between the two spouses over the years. Smarajit Biswas and his wife, Rupa, had been married for five years, although with no children. D ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Suicide Bombers in the Chemical Insect War
	Sometimes the suicide bombers have more noble intentions than 72 virgins. They can save the whole colony, like in the case of the cabbage aphids that have developed a type of mustard oil "bomb" that helps them keep the predators away, as revealed by a new research. This is the first time when aphids have been found to employ a plant chemical (encountered in the species they eat on) to emit a lethal burst of mustard oil when attac ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Was Going to Kill Herself in Prison
	As of yesterday, Paris Hilton is out of jail. That means we have our hands full once again. What should we pick first? Remember when Paris went to jail in the first place? She remained there for, like, only three days, then she was released to home detention. The media tackled the subject at the time, but the Paris saga was unfolding too rapidly to dwell only on one matter. But now that the saga is between seasons, any scrap is useful. ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's Really in the Mind of the Suicide Bomber?
	Would you blow yourself up just to "get" 72 virgins? You may not, but others will. Still, do not think that suicide bombers are mad or somehow mentally affected: they can actually be very rational in their pursuit of the 'benefits' of being part of a strict and close-knit religious organization, as found by Dr David Stevens, of the School of Politics and International Relations, of the University of Nottingham. He di ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 07:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Anti-Obesity Pills Boost Suicidal Rate
	It should be better if we ate to live, but for some people, life isn’t worth living without food, and a lot of it. An American review addressing a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel found that the obesity pill boost suicidal thoughts or actions. "The 20-milligram dose of the drug, Zimulti, produced clinically significant weight loss over one year. With a low-calorie diet, the drug was shown to reduce body weight by appro ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Suicide Is Inside Family. Now They Know Where
	Love can be strong, but why don't we all commit suicide after a deception? Because it is not in the genes of everybody and a new research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore is the third approach connecting a particular stretch of chromosome 2 to attempted suicide, a discovery which may be useful in detecting people at risk and develop novel drug therapies. "My goal would be to allow us to identify who is at hi ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Halle Berry Admits to Having Tried to Kill Her Beautiful Self
	She is one of the most beautiful and respected actresses in Hollywood, but money and fame will never buy happiness. At least, that's what people keep saying and Halle Berry's case could be just the most convincing argument. Usually, she's a very discreet and quiet person, not too very fond of spilling the beans on her personal life, but time has come for the sexy actress to open up to the media. In an interview ... [read more >>]
	30 March 2007, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

She's Out! Britney Is Out!
	Britney Spears has left the posh rehabilitation clinic today, her publicist confirmed in a press release. The singer was admitted into the luxury establishment on February 22, after her mother and estranged husband reportedly staged an intervention and threatened her with taking her two children away from her. Ever since November, when the former pop star filed for divorce from wannabe rapper Kevin Federline, Britney's li ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2007, 07:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Is Sick of Rehab, Wants Out.
	Earlier today, I was telling you that, since nothing of importance was heard about Britney Spears and her third visit to a rehabilitation center, we might as well talk about her comeback album and about how super-trooper producer Timbaland showed his intention of helping her to make it into a huge hit. I apologize for speaking too soon. Although, on the other hand, I was partially right because what you're about to read ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2007, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Attempts Suicide. Claims She's the Antichrist.
	While the various paparazzi agencies that were lucky enough to snap Britney Spears while she was out of the Promises center for two AA meetings claim she is looking better than she had since last November, the gossip machine is already hard at work about her stay in the posh rehabilitation clinic. Sources close to the pop star talked to 'News of the World' and revealed that on Sunday night, Britney tried to take her own ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2007, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia