People have a lot of feelings after someone dies, and the more those become silences, secret or stigma, the less likely people are to cope with their distress and worry and fears. Unfortunately, death by suicide can pull a family or community apart.

Nadine Kaslow

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I don't think it's the using of technology that's the problem, but I think it can be how that affects your relationships and the cyberbullying issue, there's growing evidence now that cyberbullying is associated with depression, with self-harm and suicidal thoughts and even death by suicide.

There have been a number of things that people have talked about lately. One is just sort of increasing rates of psychological pain or psychological distress in young people -- more anxiety and more depression -- and I think that's for a number of reasons.

People are just horrified and they can become very anxious. It shakes their personal sense of safety and security.

The feelings are OK, the actions are not. by Nadine Kaslow

The feelings are OK, the actions are not.

When you have a trauma, it's in the front of the picture of your life. It never goes out of your picture, but over time, you don't want it to be in the front anymore.

While a pill might seem easier in the moment, it doesn't help you improve the situation overall, and there are side effects to many of these medications -- like a drowsy hangover or having a hard time getting up.

All of those things fit under cognitive behavioral therapy, for example, if you take stimulus control therapy, what this does it help remove the factors that might condition your mind to resist sleep. You might coach someone to set a consistent bed time and wake time, to avoid naps, to only use the bed when they are going to sleep or be intimate with a partner.

If you can't sleep, it's better to get up and be productive, or do something relaxing than to be stressed out that you're not sleeping, relaxation training is really helpful. You can do meditation when you wake up, muscle relaxation, even sleep imagery, such as imagining yourself in a safe place that is quiet and calm.

Even if there’s some clustering effect, I don’t think you do it just to do it, the people who [commit suicide] are struggling in their own way whether its depression, substance abuse or anxiety, or difficulty dealing with the stress of whatever’s going on in their life, loss or abuse or whatever. I think that the presence of a suicide in a community is only one of the risk factors.