Podcast on Male Suicide

a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375401458?ie=UTF8tag=wwwviolentkicomlinkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0375401458″img src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/750/48/320/313989/redfieldcov.jpg” border=”0″ align=right alt=”” //abr /a href=”http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/psych/fac_staff/caine_eric.html”Dr. Eric Caine /ais chair of the Department of Psychiatry at a href=”http://www.rochesterpreventsuicide.org/AboutCSPS.html”the University of Rochester Medical Center /ain New York. An expert consultant to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Caine is one of the nation’s foremost researchers in the field of suicide prevention and an expert on mental illness and suicide among the elderly. He talks with us today about male suicide, the use of antidepressants and suicide, and suicide prevention. br /br /Dr. Caine noted that many suicide victims–especially older men–have seen their physicians within a few weeks of killing themselves. But he says that most general practioners don’t ask the right questions: it’s not enough to ask how someone feels, because often the most depressed guy will usually say “fine.” They need to ask more pointed questions like “are you enjoying life as much as you used to? and “are you having fun?” The bottom line is, more education is needed about males and suicide in our culture as it is claiming the lives of around 24,000 men a year in the US out of 30,000 total suicides. What can be done about it? Listen to the podcast and find out.br /br /You can visit the Suicide Prevention Action Network at a href=”http://www.spanusa.org/”www.spanusa.org /afor more information on suicide or take a look at a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375401458?ie=UTF8tag=wwwviolentkicomlinkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0375401458″emNight Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide/em./aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwviolentkicoml=as2o=1a=0375401458″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” / br /br /You can listen to the show directly — no downloading needed — by a href=”http://politicscentral.com/2006/12/14/the_glenn_and_helen_show_suici.php”going here/a and clicking on the gray Flash player. You can download the file by a href=”http://richmedia.pjmedia.com/audio/politicscentral/glenn_helen_show/20061214-Suicide.mp3″clicking right here,/a and you can subscribe via iTunes by a href=”http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=116559643s=143441″clicking here./a A lo-fi version suitable for dialup, cellphones, etc. is available by going a href=”http://politicscentral.com/2006/12/14/the_glenn_and_helen_show_suici.php”here/a and selecting the lo-fi version.br /br /This podcast is brought to you by Volvo at a href=”http://www.volvocars.us/”www.volvocars.us/a.