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HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth.

Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including #LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt #suicide than their peers.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesHHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youthIn February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

'Your face looks grotesque': How looksmaxxing can harm young men and boys
Looksmaxxing is ostensibly about improving your appearance. But a new study says members of online looksmaxxing forums take it too far with caustic critiques, harmful remedies and encouragement of suicide.
#socialmedia #surgery #suicide #News #Canada #NovaScotia
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

'Your face looks grotesque': How looksmaxxing can harm young men and boys
Looksmaxxing is ostensibly about improving your appearance. But a new study says members of online looksmaxxing forums take it too far with caustic critiques, harmful remedies and encouragement of suicide.
#socialmedia #surgery #suicide #News #Canada #NovaScotia
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

Study into 'looksmaxxing' reveals online community that encourages surgeries, suicide
Looksmaxxing is ostensibly about improving your appearance. But a new study says members of online looksmaxxing forums take it too far with caustic critiques, harmful remedies and encouragement of suicide.
#socialmedia #surgery #suicide #News #Canada #NovaScotia
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

NPArevolutionnaires📢 Politiques criminelles à l’hôpital: Une plainte pour « harcèlement moral, homicides involontaires et violences volontaires ayant entraîné la mort sans l’intention de la donner » visant les ministres de l’Éducation et de la Santé vient d’être déposée. Elle fait suite à une succession de suicides d’employés de santé. Veufs et veuves dénoncent l’oppression… npa-revolutionnaires.org/polit 📢NPA-R #CriminalitéHospitalière #HarcèlementMoral #SantéMentale #Suicide #DroitsDesTravailleurs

Dimanche dernier, nous enfilâmes k-wai et frusques pour sortir prendre l’air. Crachin, puis pluie légère nous accompagnèrent tout de long pour cette courte promenade dominicale.

Lundi. Petit matin pluvieux. Je ne renonce pas et enfourche mon vélo. Je remarque à quel point les verts sont nombreux, selon les essences d’arbres, et le temps maussade semble leurs donner plus de force […]

https://san.heraut.eu/2025/04/19/chroniques-du-gard-7/

Toxic culture contributed to hospital worker taking own life, coroner finds
By Eden Hynninen

Victorian mother of two Karla Lee Jordan was 50 years old when she died by her own hand in 2019. A coronial inquest has found she was subject to long-term stress in a workplace plagued with cultural issues.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-15/tox

ABC News · Toxic culture at Ballarat hospital contributed to suicide of Karla Lee Jordan, coroner findsBy Eden Hynninen