Weekly News Roundup Nov. 1 – 6, 2025
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What strong leadership really looks like when the conversation turns to mental health – Digital Journal
November 4, 2025
CMHA Alberta and Centre for Suicide Prevention hosted the 8th annual Working Stronger Conference October 28 and 29. This article highlights one of the keynote panels which focused on men’s mental health. The panel featured Buddy Up Champion organizations and men’s mental health researcher Dr. John Oliffe. CSV Midstream Solutions’ CEO Daniel Clarke spoke about the Buddy Up program’s focus on help-offering instead of help-seeking. Clarke said, “The help-seeking approach is what we’ve all been taught. It’s, ‘Here are the resources. You can do this yourself.’ That’s the message the western world keeps pushing that you can do it yourself. But we can’t. We need each other.”
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High risk of suicide after involuntary psychiatric care – EurekAlert!
November 5, 2025
New research from Sweden has found that people who are treated in psychiatric care against their have a heightened risk of dying by suicide following discharge. “It is important to point out that our observational study cannot be interpreted as meaning that involuntary treatment causes suicide. However, it is important that healthcare providers follow these patients with the right support after discharge. We now want to investigate whether the differences in risk can be used to support discharge decisions and tailored follow-up after compulsory treatment,” says John Wallert, assistant professor and associate professor at the Karolinska Institutet and principal investigator.
Parental Suicide Linked to Higher Suicide Risk for Children – Psychology Today
November 3, 2025
Approximately 1 in 25 people will be directly affected by the suicide of a family member. Parental suicide has many adverse outcomes for children, including psychological issues like PTSD and substance us, as well as social challenges around building healthy relationships, fears of intimacy, and physical health issues like cardiovascular disease. Research shows that children of parents who have died by suicide are three times more likely to die by suicide. Psychotherapist Colleen Mousseau explains that children who have lost someone to suicide need “Safe, supportive spaces to understand, gain information, express feelings, and provide opportunities for connection with the person who passed away. Group-based support can especially help mitigate the isolation and loneliness associated with grieving parental suicide.”
Time in bed, night wakefulness linked to elevated suicide risk in UK adolescents – Healio
November 3, 2025
A recent study has found that adolescents in the UK who spent less time in bed during school days and frequently awoke during the night had an increased risk of suicide. “There is existing research into the role of sleep on suicide risk in adolescence, yet our understanding of the nature of these relationships is limited,” explains Michaela Pawley, MRes, doctoral candidate at the University of Warwick. “Investigating these associations at this age can establish whether sleep problems may predict suicide risk.” Pawley says, “With sleep being modifiable, interventions that target these specific sleep behaviors alongside other critical risk factors may help prevent later suicidality, which is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents and young people globally.”
Has OpenAI really made ChatGPT better for users with mental health problems? – The Guardian
November 2, 2025
Last week OpenAI said that they have made their ChatGPT service better at supporting users with mental health issues and suicide ideation, however, many experts believe they’re not doing enough. The Guardian tested prompts indicating suicidal ideation with the updated ChatGPT model and found that it is still providing harmful information to people who may be struggling. Zainab Iftikhar, a computer science PhD student at Brown University says, “No safeguard eliminates the need for human oversight. This example shows why these models need stronger, evidence-based safety scaffolding and mandatory human oversight when suicidal risk is present.”