Does lithium prevent suicide? A large trial complicates an old belief
Older meta-analyses linked lithium to fewer suicides. A randomised trial in 519 US veterans, stopped early for futility, found no such benefit when it was added to usual care.
Looksmaxxing, explained: what the term means and what the evidence supports
The word covers everything from sunscreen to self-surgery. The low-risk end has real evidence behind it; the invasive end is where the harm sits, and the whole subculture carries a mental-health cost.
Bonesmashing: the looksmaxxing trend that is deliberate facial injury
The claim that striking your face remodels the bone into a stronger jaw has no mechanism and no evidence. Blunt force to the facial skeleton is how oral surgeons see fractures and nerve damage arrive.
Korea tightened its involuntary commitment rules in 2017. Emergency visits then rose.
A quasi-experimental analysis of 23 hospitals finds about 95 additional self-harm and suicide-related emergency visits a month after the law changed, alongside fewer psychiatric admissions.
What protects a teenager from self-harm depends on how old they were
An Australian cohort of 3,044 children found no protective factor held across all ages and outcomes. School safety mattered at age 6-7; belonging mattered at 12-13.