Summary: Understanding The Risks Of Suicide

Everywhere you look you in 40 seconds or more you see people going mad and killing them self, because they have been bullied or they have been in an abusive situation. If you think about the rate of suicide in America is 11 victims per 100,000 people, it is almost the same as it was in 1965. In spite of the rise of antidepressant drugs, crisis hotline centers, and better treatment of mental illness, they still haven’t gotten much closer to understanding or preventing suicide. The reason for that might be that prevention focuses more on the study of illness than it does the actual ways people attempt to kill themselves says Scott Anderson, the author of a New York Times Magazine article, “ The Urge to End It All”. In effect, its the method, not the madness.

The Effects of Suicide On Our Society People have been committing suicide since the beginning of time. Suicide is defined as the death of a person, caused by self-directed injurious behavior, with any intent to die as a result of that behavior. A suicide attempt, is a non-fatal, self directed,

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people between ages 15 – 34. Now, the question is where’s the effort to stop it? If 90% of people who commit suicide have a mental illness,

Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Suicide Attempts Nursing 410 Introduction The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has published a fact sheet of statistics on suicide in the United States. In 2007, it is reported that suicide was the tenth leading cause of death. Furthermore, for every suicide committed, eleven were attempted. A total of 34,598 deaths occurred from suicide with an overall rate of 11.3 suicide deaths per 100,000 people. (NIMH, 2010). Risk factors were also noted on this report and listed “depression and other mental disorders, or a substance abuse disorder (often in combination with other mental disorders). More than ninety percent of people who die by suicide have these risk factors (NIMH, 2010).”

The United States takes the eleventh spot in the top fifteen causes of death because of suicide. For our youth suicide is the third leading cause of death. In today’s society suicide in our youth is becoming a huge issue. Recently, youth suicide in Delaware has been

Cheyenne Landreth Angela Allen Writing I: Monsters 27 April 2016 Mental Heath: Seeking Normalcy Suicide rates have skyrocketed in the last few years due in part to the lack of access to mental healthcare caused by the stigma that surrounds seeking treatment. An estimated 15% of people diagnosed with depression and approximately 20%

Leading to a vicious cycle that proves almost impossible to break. In addition, mental health disorders can lead to suicide. Suicide is a horribly tragic act that can be prevented. Suicide is usually caused by severe depression, a feeling of hopelessness. This severe depression can be caused by a tragic life event such as losing a job or divorce. People can also be predisposed to depression. People’s brains who suffer from depression simply cannot produce enough neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which are responsible for making you happy. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. More people die from suicide than hypertension, abnormally high blood pressure, and Parkinson’s disease. The rate in which this is happening is rising yearly. In recent years suicide rates have taken a steep rise in prevalence. Many people struggling with depression feel as though they don’t have real issues compared to other people, or that people will judge them seeking help for feeling sad. People who have been directly affected by suicide will tell you that it is not silly to seek help if you are feeling sad. Suffers sometimes feel so depressed that they cannot get out of bed. It can be debilitating. Uneducated individuals do not understand this, and will tell a sick person to “just get out of bed”, or “we all have issues too, deal with it and get on with life like the rest of us”.

The organization was tasked with establishing goals and objectives to prevent suicide across the nation (“Goals and Objectives” 1). Though the initiatives the National Strategy of Suicide Prevention set in place may be effective, suicide rates continue to climb amongst

The experiment that was conducted was assess whether ethnicity is associated with suicide attempts across particular groups. A cross-sectional study was used to obtain the information on suicide attempt and suicidal completion. Interview was conducted to all participants to collect ethnicity and the structured interview for DSM-IV was used for the diagnosis of our patient. Patients were categorized in two groups: attempters if they attempt at least once during their life and non-attempters if they never attempt suicide during their life. At least ten different cohorts such as age, gender, diagnosis, duration of illness and a history of alcohol or substance abuse were used. Also the patients were separated by bipolar and schizophrenia disorders.

Clinicians should be aware of risk factors of suicidal behavior, however, warning signs of suicide tend to provide clinicians with more information when faced with the task of making a quick decision regarding the safety of a client. For example, depression is a risk factor for suicidal behavior, however, less than 15 percent of individuals with depression attempt suicide (Goldsmith et al. 2002). Therefore, focusing on a risk factor such as depression alone will not be as effective as also assessing

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.

Suicide is the wilful taking of one’s own life. Suicide is prevalent and affects people of all ages and cultures. In the UK male population suicide is now the biggest killer of middle-aged males overtaking diseases such as cancer and heart disease. A major predictor of engaging in suicidal behaviour is depression. Furthermore, it was found that 15% of clinically depressed patients would take their own lives. (HOLT). Those are only statistics but they can in no way describe the misery in which people find themselves. There are many differing factors that contribute to a person engaging in suicidal behaviour such as loss, history of mental disorder and environmental factors. There are also many theories of suicide that integrate these established risk factors such as the interpersonal theory of suicide.

Routinized Assessment of Suicide Risk in Clinical Practice: An Empirically Informed Update written by Chu et al. This article is important because it lays further groundwork in evaluating and treating individuals with suicidal symptoms. An update is essential to maintain a solid suicide spectrum and expanding the existing model that has not been updated since 1999. Chu et al talk about the suicide variables and newly discovered symptoms that correspond to the capability of suicide. The results of this journal article leads to categorizing individuals on how severe in suicide risk individuals are and how to address the risks as well as how to manage them.

Suicide is a “death caused by self- directed injurious behavior with an intent to die as a result of the behavior” (Violence Prevention, 2017). Suicide is often varied by different cultures, other people religions, people ethnic norms, and other issues that relate under suicide. Suicide has a downfall in many

Certain factors will attribute to one’s risk of becoming suicidal. With each additional factor an individual becomes more at risk. The most common suicide risk factors include: depression, substance abuse, a personal or family history of suicide attempts, sexual orientation, stressful life events, and both physical and sexual abuse (Aldrich & Cerel, 2009). In addition, particular populations have proven to be at greater risk, such as, adolescents and young adults, elderly, those in high stress professions, people living alone or in select regions, and family members of suicide loss face a risk which twice as high as the general population (Draper et al., 2015). Other research studies have identified other at-risk populations, such as, individuals with psychiatric disorders, those with physical disorders, especially conditions associated with chronic pain, and patients with traumatic brain injuries (Suicide Risk Assessment Guide, n.d.).