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When we heard on Earthwise Radio this week that communing with nature makes us feel better, it probably wasn't a surprise.But the why might surprise you.…
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ERs in the Northland are seeing young people coming in who have made, to varying degrees, attempts to take their own lives in the wake of the popular…
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The Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. The death of Project Semicolon founder Amy Bluel. The study that discovered that a group of white, middle-aged…
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On September 23, 2016, Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) announced KUMD’s Lisa Johnson as the winner in the Journalism Award Program for…
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When Arne Vainio set out to write articles on the epidemic of Native youth suicide for Indian Country Today and Indianz.com, he put out a call for names…
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"Aletha Meyer Pinnow, 31, of Duluth, died from depression and suicide on Feb. 20, 2016."That was the first line of Aletha's obituary as it was printed in…
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When he was 19 years old, Kevin Hines threw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco. Tormented by a variety of mental illnesses - in his own…
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Native American teens experience the highest rate of suicide of any population in the United states, more than double that of the general population,…
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Are we substituting jails for insane asylums in America?Jackie Buffington-Vollum is a UMD Sociology professor who says a conservative estimate of the rate…
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At the turn of the 20th century, people with mental illness were still being locked up in institutions.100 years later, they're still being…