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it's such an awful existence to be a psychiatric patient as a teenager, there has to be another way to help aggressively suicidal teenagers, such as addressing the circumstances that make them want to die so much in the first place! you can stop suicide by locking someone up, sure, but they will not want to live

For individuals whose cases are judgment calls, where some physicians would hospitalize but others would not, we find that hospitalization nearly doubles both the probability of dying by suicide or overdose and also nearly doubles the probability of being charged with a violent crime in the three months after evaluation. We provide evidence of earnings and housing disruptions as potential mechanisms. Our results suggest that, on the margin, the system we study is not achieving the intended effects of the policy.

Otama Shimai

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Exit Opera, Kim Addonizio

Being small Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace

▽ The first envelope was a pair of wings.

Italian specimen agate and quartz box, circa 1800.

2005