Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors include mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance abuse, including alcoholism and use of benzodiazepines.
There is no single cause to suicide. It most often occurs when stressors exceed current coping abilities of someone suffering from a mental health condition or inner-tolerance levels.
Excessive sadness or moodiness, long-lasting pain, mood swings, and unexpected rage. Betrayal, hopelessness, feeling a deep sense of desparation about the future, with little expectation that circumstances can improve.
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 24.
Little is known about recent trends in rural-urban disparities and youth suicide, particularly sex- and method-specific changes.
Asylum seekers,and trapped refugees are self-harming and attempting suicidal journeys as a result of “disastrous” policies and neglect, aid agencies have warned.
Fifty percent of battered women who attempt suicide undertake subsequent attempts. Nearly 1 in 2 women have experienced sexual violence other than rape in their lifetime. Rape victims are four times more likely to have contemplated suicide after the rape.
The elderly population has a significant risk of suicide when compared to any other age group. Despite this, suicide among the aged receives scant attention.
Suicide rates among war veterans are the highest of any particular group.
Suicide bombing used to be a disturbing phenomenon. It has become so common that now it is the phenomenon of women and children as the human bombs. Most research presumes that suicide bombings are political acts, rather than revengeful acts.
There are widening disparities between a number of the lower class occupations and the highest class occupations over the years. Occupational pressure in suicide rates widened.
There is a need for programs to be responsive to economic downturns, and to prioritize the occupational groups most affected.
Suicide prevention is an umbrella term for the collective efforts of local citizen organizations, health professionals and related professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide.
General efforts have included preventive and proactive measures within the realms of medicine and mental health, as well as public health and other fields. Because protective factors such as social support and social engagement, as well as environmental risk factors such as access to lethal means, appear to play significant roles in the prevention of suicide, suicide should not be viewed solely as a medical or mental health issue. Suicide prevention is risky for health professionals in terms of practitioner emotional distress and risk for malpractice suits.
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The truth is our world has grown too selfish, indifferent and greedy to care or share the misery, disparity and injustices of the many that stand today with nothing left to lose.
We have grown conditioned to pain killing rather than curing, differing rather than solving! We have become so virtual that we have forgone our sense of reality.
That needs to change before it’s too late!
We need to start fixing problems, curing situations and giving people self esteem, something to live for, a beacon of hope, things to look forward to.
We need to provide assurances that what is right is right, and that people do care for the truth and the living.
Please look into each other’s eyes, listen to each other’s thoughts and feel each other’s pain, then react with sincerety, affirmative action and care.
Nothing more to say, as nothing is as okay as it seems to be!
Food for thought!