Family believes bullying, ADHD medication played role in 9-year-old girl's suicide

The parents of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who took her own life believe that bullying and ADHD medication played a role in her death.

According to AL.com, Madison “Maddie” Whittsett, of Birmingham, was pronounced dead at Children’s of Alabama Monday morning. The Friday before, her mother found her hanging in her bedroom closet.

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Could Psychiatric Care Be Causing Suicides?

What is the reason that people are 44.3 times more likely to commit suicide if they’ve visited a psychiatric hospital within the year? AlterNet has published a commentary by Mad In America News Editor Rob Wipond, discussing the implications of a recent Danish study that either found the best predictors of suicide ever identified, or the worst causes of suicide ever identified.

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McEntee: Does ‘happy’ Utah foster more suicides?

Far and away, the core cause of suicide is severe mental illness — depression, bipolar and anxiety disorders, substance abuse and anorexia.

A new study, however, puts another element into the mix, suggesting that living in a “happy” place like Utah can make “discontented” people feel badly treated by life, as one of its authors put it.

McEntee: Does ‘happy’ Utah foster more suicides?

Ah yes... The world we live in...

Government Is Daring To Keep Children On Drugs

Apparently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had at least heard about the suicide of Gabriel Myers.

Government Is Daring To Keep Children On Drugs

Mom says center took teen off needed drugs three months before suicide

The mother of a 15-year-old Knox County boy who hanged himself while in juvenile custody in Chattanooga said Thursday her son died because he wasn't given needed psychiatric medications by a drug treatment center overseeing his care.

Mom says center took teen off needed drugs three months before suicide

Report links bullying and suicide

A new study by charity Beatbullying links bullying with suicide in teenagers, Georgia tells her story

A guide to psychiatric medications that increase suicide risks

This type of intoxication is called "involuntary," because the patient has been following doctor's orders while simultaneously and unknowingly worsening their condition. Most people have been accustomed to following doctors' orders unquestioningly. Also, patients experiencing an altered state of mind are not always able to ask the most important questions about their medications or clearly convey the reaction they are experiencing.

A guide to psychiatric medications that increase suicide risks

TeenScreen - Controversial and Unscientific

After 7-Year-Old Gabriel Myers' Suicide, Fla. Bill Looks to Tighten Access to Psychiatric Drugs

The apparent suicide of 7-year-old boy Gabriel Myers, who was taking several psychiatric medications, has led to the introduction of a bill in the Florida legislature, which would assure that powerful mental health drugs dispensed to Florida foster care children would be more closely monitored.

After 7-Year-Old Gabriel Myers' Suicide, Fla. Bill Looks to Tighten Access to Psychiatric Drugs

Child's suicide raises medication questions

Little bodies sink into adult-sized conference chairs.

With crayons between their fingers, they color on a sheet of paper after writing promises to their parents -- "to control my anger," "to make good grades" and "to go to the good side" when deciding what path to take in life.

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A guide to psychiatric medications that increase suicide risks

If you knew that your psychiatric medication could potentially increase your risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings, would you still take it? And if you chose to continue the medication, how would you protect yourself against the possibility, however improbable, of experiencing such a serious side effect?

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Antidepressants cut risk of hospital readmission for suicidal youth

Suicidal adolescents who were prescribed an antidepressant medication during inpatient psychiatric hospital treatment were 85 percent less likely than others to be readmitted within a month after discharge, a new study found.

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TeenScreen - Controversial and Unscientific

National Public Radio: "This is a program that has some very vocal critics. They say Teenscreen usurps parental authority, sends kids to therapy who might not need it and they say the program encourages families to put adolescents on antidepressant drugs."

Don't bend the law when giving foster kids drugs

Gabriel Myers was a 7-year-old boy whose world was collapsing when he hanged himself in a foster home in Margate. He was among 268 children between the ages of 6 and 7 medicated while in state care.

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