Clinicians can improve suicide care for pregnant and postpartum patients

An instructor in a white medical coat lectures to a classroom of nursing students in front of a white board and model of a skeleton.

With suicide rates increasing in the United States, communities must use every tool available to identify those at risk so they can be connected to the care they need. Earlier this year, Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) worked directly with the state’s health care providers to help increase suicide risk screening among pregnant and postpartum people, …

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My husband committed suicide at age 38 after years of struggling with his mental health. He was so good at masking his pain that our loved ones had no idea how much he was struggling.

Victoria Wright, 36, from Nottingham, founded Riders Minds – a mental health charity – with her late partner Matthew.  The couple photographed with their three children

A widow who lost her husband to suicide said he had an “incredible” ability to hide his true feelings, as she urged anyone else worried about a loved one’s mental health to “seek help.” ‘help “. Victoria Wright, 36, from Nottingham, founded the mental health charity Riders Minds for riders with her late husband Matthew, …

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