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Suicide and Chronic Pain: The Facts, Risk Factors, and Warning Signs

The possibility of someone taking his/her own life is real. Every year, people commit suicide when least expected. Unfortunately, denial allows the warning signs to go unnoticed and the facts to be buried six feet under.  When someone does commit suicide, a community, family or circle of friends is forced to face the reality that certain... Read moreChevron
posted 05/09/2011, comments (7)|
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Fibromyalgia Patients At Increased Risk of Suicide and Accidental Dealth

A study published in the January 2011 issue of Arthritis Care & Research found that although fibromyalgia patients are not at increased risk for mortality, they do have a greater risk of dying by suicide or accident.  Researchers compared 8,186 patients who had been seen for fibromyalgia in the 35 years between 1974 and 2009 with 10,087... Read moreChevron
posted 01/31/2011, comments (3)|
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Dealing With Suicidal Thoughts

This is a subject that no one likes to talk about, but one I've found has at least crossed the mind of most chronic pain patients.  It's kind of a “dirty little secret” that we keep to ourselves.  Most people I've talked to who live with chronic pain admit to having had thoughts of suicide, asking God to take their lives, or... Read moreChevron
posted 02/28/2010, comments (3)|
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Destined (triggering)

I figured out that eating just prolongs my misery. It also leads to bowel movements, and these are way too painful for me. I haven't eaten anything of nutrional value for a few days. Anytime I try, I lose all interest in eating.   It is not like me to be suicidal, at least not before the chronic pain. My depression seems to be much worse... Read moreChevron
posted 12/08/2008, comments (4)|
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A small step

This is my first post on this website. I am nervous. After growing up with emotionally abusive parents, I have been scared of human contact ever since. But I have to make contact with others or I may very well wind up dead.   I have had chronic pain for four years. Suicide is now an obsession with me. It's got to be because of the chronic... Read moreChevron
posted 10/23/2008, comments (2)|
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