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Mental illness and guns: the issue is suicide
Some years ago, I was called by one of my patients who had just suffered severe rejection in a love relationship. She told me that she was on her way to buy a gun but thought she might call me first. I suggested that she come see me before she purchased a...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Corporate Officers, Mental Illness, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Suicide
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Police say woman killed by suicidal man in Reisterstown crash
A 20-year-old Westminster man intent on committing "suicide by cop" crashed his parents' sport utility vehicle Tuesday night, killing an elderly Reisterstown woman, Baltimore County police said. Police said Nicholas Mottley led officers on a chase...
Tags: Reisterstown Road, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Pikesville, Transportation Accidents, Suicide
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Baltimore-born terrorism expert explores 'The Myth of Martyrdom'
Adam Lankford thinks there's an oft-repeated misconception about suicide attackers that isn't merely wrong. It's potentially deadly. Lankford is the Baltimore-born terrorism expert who has just published a book titled "The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really...
Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Suicide, Philosophy, Terrorism, University of Alabama
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Psychiatrists, mental health advocates uneasy with gun policy prescriptions
Sitting around a broad table in a nondescript office in Reisterstown last week, more than a dozen mental health advocates, medical professionals and law enforcement officials stared tensely at one another. Nearly a month after the state-created task...
Tags: Culture, Health and Safety at School, Barack Obama, Hospitals and Clinics, Dan Martin
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Bradley Manning's history showed self-harm risk, counselors testify
An Army private charged with sending U.S secrets to the website WikiLeaks had a history of suicidal thoughts and aloof behavior that outweighed a psychiatrist's opinion that he posed no risk to himself, two former counselors testified Sunday. Army...
Tags: Military Justice, WikiLeaks, Court Preliminary, Justice System, Suicide
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Bel Air man charged in carjacking, robbery; held without bail
A Bel Air man is being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center after he allegedly carjacked and injured a woman in his neighborhood and later robbed a man at a Wawa in Bel Air, between last Friday and Monday. Christopher Michael...Tags: Theft, Justice System, Harford County, Suicide, Maryland State Police
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Death of Mike Flanagan, Orioles great, leaves shadows of doubt
"Did you ever notice Mike when he came off the mound after a good inning?" asks Alex Flanagan, widow of the Orioles Hall-of-Famer who committed suicide a year ago. "He always had his head down." That provokes a vivid memory of No. 46, the smart pitcher...
Tags: Cy Young Award, Companies and Corporations, Detroit Tigers, Suicide, Fishing
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Flanagan story a warning about the risks of depression
In reading Dan Rodricks' article, "Shadows of doubt — the life and death of Mike Flanagan" (Aug. 18), I was deeply touched not only by Mr. Rodricks' sensitivity and understanding of major depression but also of his love and caring for Mike Flanagan....Tags: Health Treatments, Psychotherapy, Memorial Stadium, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
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Tags: Prisons, WikiLeaks, Justice System, Suicide, The Pentagon
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Tydings Park stand-off ends with suicide
An Aberdeen man shot himself to death after a stand-off with police Friday in the Yacht Basin at Havre de Grace's Millard Tydings Park, near the steps leading to the park's popular playground and as people were starting to arrive for the Friday Concerts...Tags: Aberdeen, Elkton, James Dean, Celebrities and Health Issues, Stress
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Hooked on treatment: Marylanders pay clinic millions, but diagnoses questionable
Kevin Brown knew he was hooked on crack cocaine. That was obvious each time he set off on another smoking binge. But Brown says he never imagined that he also suffered from a mental illness until he walked into Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc.
A day or...Tags: Human Body, Tobacco Addiction, Government Health Care, Chiropractors, Maryland
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As economic crisis goes on, financial fears can push some over the edge
Baltimore Sun reportersThe headlines have had a similar ring: A Frederick County man underwater on his mortgage kills himself and his family. A man accused of financial improprieties does the same while staying at a Towson hotel. A top official with Freddie Mac, a company...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Great Depression (1929), Long Island, Health and Safety at School, Maryland
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