Mental health and suicide.First of all, I would like to thank the editorial staff of ColorLines for doing work that focuses on issues affecting the poor and disenfranchised. I am writing this note regarding the article "Suicide Rate Up Among Latina Teens" (March/April 2007). I am a pediatrician practicing in the Bronx, and my patient population is almost entirely African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. and Latino. I myself am the daughter of Latino immigrants. As a medical doctor, I need to point out that by far, the underlying predictor of future suicide among all ethnic groups is mental illness. Bipolar disorder bipolar disorder, formerly manic-depressive disorder or manic-depression, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression. , clinical depression and undiagnosed schizophrenia are some of the medical conditions See carpal tunnel syndrome, computer vision syndrome, dry eyes and deep vein thrombosis. with high suicide rates. However, Daisy Hernandez failed to mention psychiatric disorders as a cause of suicide. While intra-familial conflicts can overwhelm a person's coping capacities, especially that of a teenager, the extremity of a completed suicide is usually the end result of a dangerous and deadly mental disease such as, for example, mania, or auditory hallucinations. Thank you, Nelly nel·ly or nel·lie n. pl. nel·lies Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an effeminate homosexual man. [Probably from the name Nelly, nickname for Helen.] Maseda M.D. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY |
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