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"When I heard about Bourdain, I was sad for him and . . . for people who might be influenced by it,” said Dr. Madelyn Gould, who has studied “suicide contagion” for years.

"Death should not be an outcome of mental illness. And zero suicide is an absolutely achievable goal," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman in this video.

“There is a dearth of empathy, even of kindness, in the national conversation, and those deficits turn ordinary neurosis into actionable despair,” writes Dr. Andrew Solomon.

There are a number of factors — temperament, personality traits, self-esteem, genes, and family history, to name a few — involved in the etiology of clinical depression, says Dr. Myrna Weissman.