Article: "What happens when you try to prevent every single suicide?"

The Henry Ford Clinic has implemented an innovative new program designed to prevent every single suicide among its patients - and it has achieved a certain degree of success.  Given the inadequacies of current suicide-prevention efforts, Henry Ford's program screens all patients for depressive symptoms and aggressively promotes proactive therapy that incorporates safety plans and gets the patient's family on board.  Especially inspiring is the training that therapists receive, which emphasizes that no patient is beyond hope.  Let us keep all those contemplating suicide, along with their family, friends, and health care providers, in our prayers!

Article: "Sleep Interruptions Worse for Mood than Overall Reduced Amount of Sleep"

A recent study has found that disrupted sleep is more detrimental to one's mood than simply sleeping less overall, a study that is sure to have implications for those whose depression is linked to postpartum sleep deprivation or other sleep disorders like sleep apnea!  Here's hoping that more research and treatment options for these conditions are forthcoming.

Next Meeting: November 19!

Please join us for our November meeting, which will be held this Thursday, November 19, from 6:30pm-8:00pm in the St. Agnes Parish Center.  With colder weather, darker days, and holidays approaching, let's join together and support each other in prayer and conversation!