Misguided Propaganda About Suicide

This report ignores the fact that psychiatric drugs, a essential element of treatment is a cause of suicidal thoughts. Even the drug-company-controlled FDA requires a warning label on these drugs. But this is conveniently omitted from the report which is focused on more taxpayer funded treatment. Admitting they are unable to distinguish between thoughts and who will act on  those thoughts is exactly the problem with psychiatrists. It is a matter of guesswork, opinion masquerading as science. How do psychiatrists get their ability to predict the future? Nonetheless the geniuses in New York State approved a law to require doctors, all doctors not just the prognosticators, to report troubling comments by owners of guns. Allowing psychiatrists to control human freedom is as dangerous as removing guns from civilians. Hitler and Stalin removed guns and sued psychiatry to control their populations. 

[From article]
More than half of the youth were already in treatment when they reported suicidal behavior. Nock said that was both "encouraging" and "disturbing."

"We know that a lot of the kids who are at risk and thinking about suicide are getting (treatment)," he told Reuters Health. However, "We don't know how to stop them - we don't have any evidence-based treatments for suicidal behavior."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/09/us-suicide-study-idUSBRE90816320130109

One in 25 youth attempt suicide: U.S. study
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK
Wed Jan 9, 2013 3:25pm EST