As suicide rates across the country are rising at an incredible rate, experts want to urge people to learn about the warning signs to prevent it.
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, “to kill oneself”) is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Suicide is often carried out as a result of despair, the cause of which is frequently attributed to a mental disorder such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, alcoholism, or drug abuse.
Stress factors include such things as financial difficulties or troubles with interpersonal relationships often play a role in suicide.
Efforts to prevent suicide include limiting access to method of suicide such as firearms and poisons, treating mental illness and drug misuse, and improving economic circumstances.
See shocking video: 10 Facts About Suicide – Suicide Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lhqUQ-acRM
How to fight against suicide
Its important to talk about suicide and how to spot warning signs in order to prevent it from happening.
Here are some suicide prevention tips:
- Speak up if you’re worried or have a concern, let the person know you’re worried.
- Respond quickly in a crisis
- Offer help and support
See video: How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMAnPRLMH8 .
The following suicide warning signs are indicators of risk:
- Talking about suicide.
- Any talk about suicide, dying, or self-harm, such as “I wish I hadn’t been born,” “If I see you again…” and “I’d be better off dead.”
- Seeking out lethal means.
- Seeking access to guns, pills, knives, or other objects that could be used in a suicide attempt.
- Preoccupation with death.
- Unusual focus on death, dying, or violence. Writing poems or stories about death.
- No hope for the future.
- Feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and being trapped (“There’s no way out”). Belief that things will never get better or change.
- Self-loathing, self-hatred.
- Feelings of worthlessness, guilt, shame, and self-hatred. Feeling like a burden (“Everyone would be better off without me”).
- Getting affairs in order.
- Making out a will. Giving away possessions. Making arrangements for family members.
- Saying goodbye.
- Unusual or unexpected visits or calls to family and friends. Saying goodbye to people as if they won’t be seen again.
- Withdrawing from others.
- Withdrawing from friends and family. Increasing social isolation. Desire to be left alone.
- Self-destructive behavior.
- Increased alcohol or drug use, reckless driving, unsafe sex. Taking unnecessary risks
- A sudden sense of calm and happiness after being extremely depressed can mean that the person has made a decision to commit suicide.
- There are court intervention programs, where a judge can place person under involuntary hold until they get help.
See video: Rhett Miller’s Reason to Call the Lifeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_NZisI21fI
National Suicide Prevention hotline: 1-800-273-8255