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Psychology Today: The Suicide Switch

Psychology Today: The Suicide Switch Why I’m considered the world’s leading authority in suicide prevention? About me: Matthew D. Dovel Unrelated to traditional psychologist, I have a heavy background in computer science going back to the 1980’s when I was diagnosing computer circuit boards and writing computer programming well into the 1990’s. I operated a computer consulting business starting in 1990, semi-retired now, and was what is called a hacker. I explored networks that didn’t involve taking information, or destructive behavior (more or less just for my personal entertainment). So, when I started looking into the mechanics of the mind in 1987 my prospective was one of a technician, not a psychologist. I immediately could see that the mind was just computer code, and programming. And, that the mind is nothing more than linked hard drives where data can be written, rewritten and erased. Programs run in the background t...

Google's new app aiming to end suicide in military and for VETs

New app by Google aiming to lower military, and VET suicides through local nonprofit. |  Get the app  | Help lower military suicides now |  donate  | Help lower Veteran suicides now |  donate  | Press Release August 1, 2013 Google’s One Today App Aims To Make Charitable Donations A More Social, And Frequent, Experience   Drew Olanoff Thursday, April 18th, 2013 4  Comments Today, Google quietly ushered in a new application built on top of its  nonprofit arm, Google.org . The app is called  One Today , and it’s currently invite only for Android users at this time. The aim is to get people to donate $1 to different organizations, while getting the complete information about how your donation will be used up front. This is a huge stumbling block for nonprofits usually, as people are afraid that their money won’t actually get spent on making a real difference. One Today aims to change that. Additionally, One Today ...