Suicide In Texas

“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” - Phil Donahue. As a complex, tragic public health issue, suicide occurs in men significantly more often than in women. Suicide is simply defined as the act of intentionally ending one’s own life, however, the factors that play into a person making that decision are anything but simple. The most evident and severe effect of suicide is the loss of a valuable, meaningful human life. According to Harvard School of Public Health (n.d.), suicide affects parents, children, siblings, friends, lovers, and spouses; the loss to society is psychological, spiritual, and financial. People who lose a loved one to suicide often experience devastating effects and deal with a complex grief. These

We know today that one major cause of suicide is depression, and there is a lot of different factors that lead to depression. Things like bullying, death, divorce, and stress can all be things that cause depression. Janice Shaw Crouse wrote an article talking about teen suicides and in her writing she stated“…more than 90 percent of

Suicides are very emotionally painful for everyone involved and often leave the family with a triple burden. First, the family has grief for their loss. Secondly, the family often feels anger or rage since the death of their loved one was completely preventable. And finally, families often feel guilt because they believe they might have been able to prevent the death. People who have major psychiatric disorders, prior attempts, difficulties of sexual identity, family troubles or crisis, current or prior alcohol or drug abuse, or depression are more likely to commit suicide, and suicide and depression are

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States (Comer, 2016). For every one suicide, twenty-five more make an attempt. It is becoming a major mental health concern as the rate of suicidal behavior and death by suicide increases yearly worldwide. There is no single cause for suicide ideation or behavior, however; there are triggering factors that can precipitate or motivate someone to attempt suicide (Comer, 2016). These factors include drug or alcohol abuse and stressful life events or changes. Suicide is commonly accompanied by other mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Treatments for suicide occur after a suicide attempt has been made or to prevent suicide from happening.

Some people who commit suicide are those who have psychological disorders, because of the symptoms that go alone with those disorders, such as depression. When one is depressed, they have a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness which may lead to them feeling like they don't want to be alive anymore. There is also a neurobiological model. Heritability is believed to play a role in suicide attempts. Low levels of serotonin

There are three types of causes: Environmental, Socio-cultural, and Biopsychosocial. Environment causes are linked to stressful life events and are the following: social loss or a loss of a significant other, access to lethal means like firearms or drugs, being exposed to suicide, being a victim of harassment, bulling or physical abuse. This is very similar to Socio-cultural causes which is caused by trauma or isolation that include: being isolated or not being accepted by others, difficulty seeking help or support, lack of access to mental health or substance abuse treatment, following a belief system that accepts suicide, exposure to suicidal behavior. The next cause is Biopsychosocial which is mental disorders or genetics. This includes such: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, personality disorder, substance abuse, being abused as a child or experiencing trauma, a family history if suicide, previous attempts of suicide, or having a chronical disease. Most of the time, people who commit suicide have multiple causes at once. This leads to taking extreme measures. Such as maybe killing themselves after they have killed multiple other people (April Kahn; Kevin Caruso, Janice C.

Health problems can also exacerbate suicidal feelings. Social isolation is also a risk factor for suicide. As people get

Suicide can be caused by depression, one thing you should know is that it’s False: That people who talk about suicide won’t really do it.( Helpguide.org ) Most of the time people who commit suicide threatened about them dying with phrases like you won’t be laughing when i’m dead, or you’ll be sorry when i’m dead. They might say it jokingly with a real suicide thought but make it seem like nothing. Its False: That talking about suicide may give someone the idea.( Helpguide.org ) you can’t just give someone the idea/ an idea of suicide they have to have already have

mental and physical affects on the mind and body. People will often go to their doctors with the

Suicide is commonly associated with depression; but, it is proven that it also tends to have stretch relations with many other psychiatric disorders and life and family events as well.

Suicidal behavior is one of the main causes of death around the world. Suicide is defined as the act of taking one’s own life, commonly due to mental illness or depression. There is a combination of community, individual, biological, and societal factors that contribute to the danger of suicide. Characteristics associated with suicide include: isolation (anti-social), loss (work, relational, financial, or social), family history of suicide, child maltreatment, mental disorder history, alcohol, and drug abuse history, aggressive or impulsive tendencies, clinical depression, prior suicide attempt(s), feelings of hopelessness, physical illness, and barriers (accessing mental health treatment). Even though several federally-funded suicide

Webster’s Dictionary defines suicide as “the act or an instance of taking one’s life voluntarily and intentionally (SUICIDE, MERRIAM).” When thinking about suicide the public view is often that the individual is at the end of their rope and has nothing left to live for. Phil Donahue says, “suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (COOK).” This implies that the situation taking place is only temporary and that there is always another option other than suicide as most do not realize that there is no coming back from suicide. In the article “Narratively Memoir”, Amanda Lin Costa talked about how her best friend shot herself when she was seven months pregnant resulting in killing not only herself, but her unborn baby as well. Costa described what it means to be a “suicide survivor as not being for those who have failed to commit suicide, but rather those who have lost loved ones to suicide (MAKENZIE).”

Further to that, people who are from a family in which suicide is common can further increase risk of suicide such as depression which if mental illness is inherited. There are have various type of traits that can lead people increasing the risk of behavior suicide, if people inherit any of these traits, such as cognitive inflexibility, aggression and stress sensitivity as well. In other words, environmental factor could influence your genetic expression, for example, the place that people live, the family or friend people hang out with as well as the situation that people facing. Each factor of these may determine whether people have suicide

Our teens opt for suicide for various reasons, among such reasons are; rejection, disappointments, guilt, shame, loneliness and feeling of hopelessness. The American Psychological Association stated that more than 90% of people who commit suicide have the following risk factors: (1) Family violence (2) Aggressive behavior (3) low self-esteem (4) Abuse-mental, physical, and or sexual (5) Alcohol and /or other substance abuse (6) Sexual orientation confusion (7) Victim of bullying, and/or mental health disorders, to include depression and anxiety.

In conclusion, people who commit suicide usually feel like they are out of options and that death is the only release. However, it is our responsibility as loved ones to remind them that they are not alone in this and that they have people who love and support them. It is also our responsibility to remind them that