Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

A. Friend (not a real name) told me that she and her husband are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to see the National Museum of Afri...

I've written about my own depression on these pages. I've written about my daughter's struggle with depression and borderline pe...

Join Stop Suicide Cheyenne, the VA Center, Prevention Management Organization, and Grace for 2 Brothers for the World Suicide Prevention ...

BBC just featured a story about "The Great Dungeons & Dragons Panic of the 1980s." For our family, it was "The Great Du...

Allison Kilkenny wrote in The Nation on Oct. 21 about the rise in suicides and other mental health crises spawned by budget cuts: Threats...

I don't personally know the two presenters at the May 16 library workshop entitled "Letting the Sunshine in." But it's one...

These three photos come from The Atlantic magazine's series of photo essays commemorating the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasio...

Here's some good news. Rodger McDaniel's biography of Wyoming U.S. Sen. Lester Hunt will be released on Tuesday, April 2. He...

The darker the state, the higher the suicide rate The Billings Gazette began a series on Sunday exploring Montana's "suicide e...

Marjorie Morrison is the author of the recently published "The Inside Battle: Our Military Mental Health Crisis" (Military Psych...

Wyoming Sen./Dr. John Barrasso, running for re-election, voted today to block a jobs bill for military veterans. He was joined in the naysay...

This is not right. From an AP wire service story: So far this year the number of suicides in the military has surged beyond expectation...

Meredith Melnick writes in Time Magazine Online today about World Suicide Prevention Day, which will take place on Monday, Sept. 10 (t...

Here are some points to ponder about children’s mental health. As a parent of children with mental health challenges, and as an adult who...

The film that accompanies Nicholas D. Kristof's New York Times story makes me incredibly sad -- and pisses me off. Why isn't more...

Laramie County School District No. 1 put out a press release on April 3 about its new arrangement with Wyoming non-profit UPLIFT to serve as...

Suicide, especially teen suicide, is a scourge in Wyoming. Instead of casting blame, better to get more and better information from the  Nat...

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Once again,   Wyoming teen suicide   is in the news. This time, it's the death of 13-year-old Alex Frye of Cheyenne. His death on New Ye...

This is a great idea for a rural state (Wyoming) which has high risk factors for suicide, domestic violence and substance abuse -- and one t...