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Mental Health Support

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mopinko

(72,883 posts)
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 11:26 AM Dec 2012

the mental health care that will prevent these mass murder suicides is [View all]

suicide prevention. you don't have to treat and cure everybody, although we should. but effective suicide prevention would prevent these tragedies, because they are, ultimately, suicides. the fact that a lot of other people would have their lives saved, and get into treatment means that a lot of pain and suffering that doesn't make it onto the front page gets alleviated, too.

what would you do if you had a magic wand to prevent suicides?

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