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Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness

By Andrew Solomon — 2014

Every forty seconds, someone commits suicide. In the United States, it is the tenth most common cause of death in people over ten years of age, far more common than death by homicide or aneurysm or aids.

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You Can Smell a New Mother’s Loneliness. Unless You’re the State

As a new mum, I know loneliness cuts deep – and the lack of services for parent and child plays a large part in this.

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Nell Frizzell
2018
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Why You’re Feeling Isolated as a New Mom

New motherhood comes with many joys and challenges. What you may not be expecting is the sense of isolation that is common for parents who have just given birth to a baby, especially for first-time mothers.

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Rachel Gurevich
2020
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This Is Why Motherhood Is Especially Lonely

I have three children, some really good girlfriends, and family who lives close by that I can count on. Yet I am still taken aback by the lonely feelings that live inside me since I became a mother.

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Katie Bingham-Smith
2020
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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
2013
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The Five Types of Avoidance

It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.

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Jessica Dore
2018
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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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Georgianna Dolan-Reilly
2013
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The MISS Foundation: A Lifeline to Grieving Families

Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.

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Mary Ann Bashaw
2016
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Joanne Cacciatore on Bereavement Work and Traumatic Loss: On the Future of Mental Health

Part of being human means that we do experience the natural ebb and flow of life. This brings sadness and joy, despair and happiness, pain and beauty, loss and love. These aspects of the human experience are normal.

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Eric R. Maisel
2016
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Meet Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

Most of you know her as Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder of the MISS Foundation and professor and researcher at Arizona State University. Her expertise is helping those affected by traumatic death.

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Sarah Love
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Naomi Osaka Shouldn’t Feel Pressured to Rush Return to Tennis

Osaka’s mental health challenges are nothing new in her isolating sport. What is new is the acceptance she’ll face—and the paths back—if she takes a prolonged break.

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Jon Wertheim
2021
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