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It may be the action of an individual, but suicide is “a social disorder for the most part,” says David Fink, PhD, MPH, a social epidemiologist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Dr. Anne Marie Albano said it’s understandable that parents want to protect their children but, "if we keep rescuing them and fixing things for them, their anxiety perpetuates and grows.

After you drink, “your sleep quality is not as good, even though the number of hours you’re spending unconscious may be the same,” said Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, an addiction psychiatrist at Columbia.

Suspected suicides . . . can be misclassified as accidents or drug overdoses, making it difficult to ascribe meaning to smaller changes in the numbers, said Dr. Mark Olfson.