DENVER – Understanding biomechanisms and other factors related to trauma that lead to suicidality are crucial for better therapeutic outcomes, an expert said at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual conference.
“We have had a suicide epidemic and an opioid epidemic and that is really the baseline for our country before we found ourselves roughly two years into a global stressor like the pandemic,” Lynnette Averill, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Baylor College of Medicine, said during the presentation.
According to Averill, suicide is the tenth