Suicide

"One of the women at the bar told him, 'You Finlanders don't have the guts to shoot yourselves.' That was the last sentence he heard."

“I don’t want you to get the impression we’re just putting you on a medicine to hide your problems. Having depression is more common than you know.…

In the Spirit of Medicine features the essays of Dr. Arne Vainio, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the…

She was looking down into one of the barrels and once she started talking, the words came out and it was like she couldn’t stop. She was sobbing and…

St. Louis County is some of the prettiest country there is, and we don't have traffic congestion, noise pollution or other big-city problems. So why is…

Google "mental illness and police" and you'll come up with a devastating list of news stories; a litany of people in mental health crises being shot by…

It was not the start to the new year anyone wanted: a 911 call from someone saying a friend was armed and suicidal and prowling the UMD campus.But within…

Those boys jumping from the snow bank are the future suicides in our communities, but only if we allow it. What we tell our children and what we say to…

Every day, 105 Americans take their own lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control.And while spending a beautiful summer morning enjoying a 5k…

The Pinnow family broke some new ground when they wrote their daughter's obituary almost two years ago. "Aletha Meyer Pinnow, 31, of Duluth, died from…