Automatic Matue content for the word suicide!!!!!

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I am very frustrated with Mylot and the automatic tag of mature content if the word suicide is mentioned. This is part of the problem. Suicide is not a bad word. Its actually a word we need to talk about and be more open about. Even the CDC and Surgeon General acknowledges suicide as a national health concern (there are national and state plans that address suicide and ways to prevent it). Something we need to talk about, and treat before a suicide occurs. If Mylot tags it automatically as mature, then I wonder how many people my posts don't reach. I want people to know they are not alone in their depression, there is help! I also want survivors of suicide to know their are others like me in the world, and they are not alone. I am disappointed mylot is preventing people from hearing good messages because of a word that society has declared "bad" even with the national government is working on reducing the stigma. Any ideas on my frustration? [i] Below is evidence of what I stated above.[/i] [b]"A Letter From The Surgeon General U.S. Department of Health and Human Services[/b] Suicide is a serious public health problem. In 1996, the year for which the most recent statistics are available, suicide was the ninth leading cause of mortality in the United States, responsible for nearly 31,000 deaths. This number is more than 50% higher than the number of homicides in the United States in the same year (around 20,000 homicides in 1996).1 Many fail to realize that far more Americans die from suicide than from homicide. Each year in the United States, approximately 500,000 people require emergency room treatment as a result of attempted suicide.2 Suicidal behavior typically occurs in the presence of mental or substance abuse disorders—illnesses that impose their own direct suffering.3-5 Suicide is an enormous trauma for millions of Americans who experience the loss of someone close to them.6 The nation must address suicide as a significant public health problem and put into place national strategies to prevent the loss of life and the suffering suicide causes. In 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO), recognizing the growing problem of suicide worldwide, urged member nations to address suicide. Its document, Prevention of Suicide: Guidelines for the Formulation and Implementation of National srategies7, motivated the creation of an innovative public/private partnership to seek a national strategy for the United States. This public/private partnership included agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, encompassing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Indian Health Service (IHS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Office of the Surgeon General, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network (SPAN), a public grassroots advocacy organization made up of suicide survivors (persons close to someone who completed suicide), attempters of suicide, community activists, and health and mental health clinicians...This Surgeon General’s Call To Action introduces a blueprint for addressing suicide—Awareness, Intervention, and Methodology, or AIM—an approach derived from the collaborative deliberations of the conference participants. As a framework for suicide prevention, AIM includes 15 key recommendations that were refined from consensus and evidence-based findings presented at the Reno conference. Recognizing that mental and substance abuse disorders confer the greatest risk for suicidal behavior, these recommendations suggest an important approach to preventing suicide and injuries from suicidal behavior by addressing the problems of undetected and undertreated mental and substance abuse disorders in conjunction with other public health approaches. These recommendations and their supporting conceptual framework are essential steps toward a comprehensive National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. Other necessary elements will include constructive public health policy, measurable overall objectives, ways to monitor and evaluate progress toward these objectives, and provision of resources for groups and agencies identified to carry out the recommendations. The nation needs to move forward with these crucial recommendations and support continued efforts to improve the scientific bases of suicide prevention..... David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General Suicide as a Public Health Problem On average, 85 Americans die from suicide each day. Although more females attempt suicide than males, males are at least four times more likely to die from suicide.1,8 Firearms are the most common means of suicide among men and women, accounting for 59% of all suicide deaths. Over time, suicide rates for the general population have been fairly stable in the United States.9 Over the last two decades, the suicide rate has declined from 12.1 per 100,000 in 1976 to 10.8 per 100,000 in 1996.10 However, the rates for various age, gender and ethnic groups have changed substantially. Between 1952 and 1996, the reported rates of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled.1,11 From 1980 to 1996, the rate of suicide among persons aged 15-19 years increased by 14% and among persons aged 10-14 years by 100%. Among persons aged 15-19 years, firearms-related suicides accounted for 96% of the increase in the rate of suicide since 1980. For young people 15-24 years old, suicide is currently the third leading cause of death, exceeded only by unintentional injury and homicide.12 More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease combined. During the past decade, there have also been dramatic and disturbing increases in reports of suicide among children. Suicide is currently the fourth leading cause of death among children between the ages of 10 and 14 years.10 Suicide remains a serious public health problem at the other end of the age spectrum, too. Suicide rates increase with age and are highest among white American males aged 65 years and older. Older adult suicide victims, when compared to younger suicide victims, are more likely to have lived alone, have been widowed, and to have had a physical illness.13,14 They are also more likely to have visited a health care professional shortly before their suicide and thus represent a missed opportunity for intervention.... Compounding the tragedy of loss of life, suicide evokes complicated and uncomfortable reactions in most of us. Too often, we blame the victim and stigmatize the surviving family members and friends. These reactions add to the survivors’ burden of hurt, intensify their isolation, and shroud suicide in secrecy. Unfortunately, secrecy and silence diminish the accuracy and amount of information available about persons who have completed suicide— information that might help prevent other suicides." http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/suicideprevention/calltoaction.asp