I Can 't Do It Anymore

It is 2:20 in the morning when the phone rings. You are automatically startled and jump to pick it up after the second ring. That feeling in your stomach tells you that something is terribly wrong. It is the police on the other end of the line telling you that your daughter has been in a fatal accident. As the officer is talking, you seem to freeze and zone out. Your spouse is up now and takes the phone and talks to the officer to find out what is going on. You are in a state of shock as you both drive to the hospital so that you all can identify your daughter. When you become more coherent, you learn that a senseless fool who was drunk took your precious baby away from you. This is one phone call

“ The top mission for the counseling center on campus is keeping their students’ safety, so after a couple times I talk to my doctor about “suicide”, they told me if I keep the dangerous idea, they would contact hospitals,” said Danny, “I know their dilemma, but I just have much pressure when I knew I would be hospitalized. Then I tried to digest the bad feeling by myself.”

There are many issues within the military organization that require focus and resolve in order to maintain the superior fighting force that protects the homeland. Unfortunately solider suicide is one of those issues. Suicide is the deliberate taking of ending of one’s life. It is often associated with a severe crisis that does not go away, or may worsen over time (Warning Signs, n.d.). This issue requires knowledge and training to help protect fellow soldiers. The military organization has decided that required annual training be conducted to every person wearing the uniform. The goal of this training is to increase awareness of suicide risk factors, warning signs, and how to provide intervention to at-risk soldiers.

There is a significant health issue facing the public as well as law enforcement every day, suicide. The numbers surrounding suicide are shocking effects people of all backgrounds. In the year 2010 more than 38,000 adults committed suicide. Then in 2011 around 1 million adults admitted to attempting suicide, while 8 million had serious suicidal thoughts. Law Enforcement officers are at an even higher risk then most due to experiencing such a large number of risk factors. These factors include but are not limited to poor physical health, access to fire arms, domestic abuse, substance abuse, exposure to violence and suicide; depression, anxiety and other mental diseases. These factors lead to an above average number of officer suicides every

An eyewitness told police that he contemplated calling the police and instead called a friend to get advice on what he should do. The man crossed the apartment building and had an elderly women make the call. The man sheepishly told the police “ I didn’t want to get involved” (Gansberg, 1964).

phone call and overhears personal, intimate, private details about a person's life, and a reasonable

Ms. Rodriguez stated she called 911 because she wishes to report her son is being bullied. I informed Officer J. Conser, I would handle this call and to have communication reassign the call to me. I introduce myself as the School Resource Officer (SRO) for Brogden Middle School. As we walked back towards the lounge

At this time, Supervisor Carlock had met up with us on Bold Springs Rd. near Station 8. He pulled behind our unit and I stopped also. Upon feeling our unit stop, Paramedic Kennedy shouted “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I SAID DON’T STOP!” Due to darkness and all of the flashing lights, I could not tell if Supervisor Carlock was standing outside of his vehicle, so I proceeded to drive to the hospital. I called supervisor Carlock and advised him what Paramedic Kennedy told me to do, and he answered 10-4.

The eligible applicants must have the capability to help find solutions to the research findings that denotes that the period after emergency suicide interventions is one of heightened risk for suicide, with significant numbers of deaths occurring following discharge from either an emergency department or inpatient hospitalization.

In Arizona, the suicide rate is 16.5 per 100,000 people which makes Arizona the top 8th state with the highest suicide rate. Arizona has a population of 6.83 million people and is also the top 8th state with the highest suicide rate, according to cbsnews. As alarming as it sounds “Suicide is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States”(randomhistory.com) After looking at these statistics, suicide is a big issue in Arizona, therefore critical action should be taken. People need to learn how to identify the signs of someone who is thinking about or has decided on committing suicide. As well as get educated on what causes the victims to go through with the act. There

At times, I think the world around me is crashing to the ground, but it keeps going. Like most people, I face obstacles of not making it to work on time, the terror of not meeting deadlines and a large family demanding my time. However, I have never encountered the type of tragedy that can bring you to your knees, that can drive you over the edge, that can influence one’s mind with thoughts of suicide until the wee hours of a mid-June morning, fifteen years ago.

In this article, Gregg Zoroya reports on the RAND study that revealed that the Army chaplains need more training in handling suicidal soldiers because almost all of the chaplains who participated in the study said they have dealt with soldiers who want to kill themselves. This is even more vital because the study also revealed that chaplains and chaplain assistants do not hold positive views about therapy hence making them unlikely to advice soldiers to seek therapy when they become suicidal. Among the reasons they give for this is that soldiers think they will be viewed differently by peers if they seek help. 44% of army chaplains and 57% of chaplain assistants conceded that they need more training to help prevent suicide among soldiers.

The final call that I experienced was a burglary in progress. We arrived at an apartment complex. I stayed in the car, while two other patrol cars arrived for backup. The call was a false alarm. It was the maintenance guy replacing a broken screen door. The person who lived in the apartment was helping the maintenance

In addition, for patients who are being treated for mental health problems or for those patients who I may suspect as being suicidal, I can work on gradually leading the patient to talk about their suicidality in order to get them to open up and gain their trust (Bryan & Rudd, 2006). For patients who have show suicidal thoughts or ideation in the past, I will work on treating the suicide as the behavior to change instead of focusing just on any comorbid mental health disorders (M. Class 4/10). I will focus on getting to know my patients better and the factors that have lead them to where they are in life. In order to help them the most, I will need to know their drivers and in order to do that, I will need to build rapport with them, so that they share with me. We will also work to build their coping skills, because I know how hard it can be to figure out coping mechanisms on your own especially when you are dealing with a crisis (M. Class

Receiving physician-assisted suicide is not an easy task; patients must first complete a long series