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Adolescent Suicide Attempts: Risks and Protectors We then calculated the estimated probabilities of attempting suicide in the next year when 0, 1, 2, or 3 protective factors were present, in combination with the presence of either no risk factors or multiple risk factors. Suicide attempts were most prevalent for white (5.6%) and Hispanic (5.5%) girls and least prevalent for fl (1.6%) and white (1.9%) boys. The remaining risk factors in Table 3, suicidal behavior of a family member, easy household access to guns, weight dissatisfaction, skipping school, poor perceived general health, being held back a grade in school, and skipping a grade in school, were significant risks for at least 1 of the 6 gender and racial/ethnic groups of adolescents. suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /adolsuiat.html   (2601 words)

Suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suicide or attempted suicide as a means of effecting social or political change is related to martyrdom. Suicidal attacks by pilots were common in the 20th century: the attack by U.S. torpedo planes at the Battle of Midway was very similar to a kamikaze attack. Some see suicide as a legitimate matter of personal choice and a human right (colloquially known as the right to die movement), and maintain that no one should be forced to suffer against their will, particularly from conditions such as incurable disease, mental illness, and old age that have no possibility of improvement. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide   (3621 words)

PsychNotes An Australian study describes that attempted suicide is often a snap decision fuelled by drugs and alcohol. The attempt to self harm was borne out of depressed feelings brought on by drug and alcohol abuse, "feelings of rejection, self-hatred and disconnectedness." A psychiatric disorder was equally present in both groups. Impulsive attempts were associated with low lethality and lack of depression while suicide attempts in major depression require attentive monitoring of suicidal ideation and intent. radio.weblogs.com /0117471/2005/10/21.html   (1057 words)

Suicide and Attempted Suicide --- China, 1990--2002 Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death overall in China and the leading cause of death in persons aged 15--34 years (1). Among 14,771 suicide attempters treated in 24 general hospitals in northern China, females outnumbered males by 2.5 to 1 (10,492 to 4,279), the median age was 29 years (range: 10--97 years), and two thirds (9,676) of all attempters were young adults aged 15--34 years. Approximately 90% (13,433 of 14,771) of the attempts were by self-poisoning; 54% (7,973) of all attempts were by ingestion of medications (usually anti-anxiety agents or sleeping pills), 28% (4,103) by ingestion of pesticides, and 9% (1,357) by ingestion of other toxins (e.g., household cleaners). www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5322a6.htm   (1447 words)

Register for Suicide Attempts The data on suicide attempts was ideally to be collected from a well-defined geographical and administrative area, making it possible to compare information about the population of suicide attempters and the normal population in the area. The RSA is a longitudinal register, which makes it suitable for examining the occurrence of repeated suicide attempts, because it is possible to obtain information on a person's suicidal behaviour as long as the person is living in the County of Funen (11, 13). The RSA contributed with statistics of attempted suicide for preparing the national programme for prevention of suicide and suicide attempts. www.danmedbul.dk /DMB_2004/0404/0404-artikler/DMB3621.htm   (2936 words)

Suicide - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNet.com Suicide is a tragic and potentially preventable public health problem. Other risk factors include: prior suicide attempt; family history of mental disorder or substance abuse; family history of suicide; family violence, including physical or sexual abuse; firearms in the home; incarceration; and exposure to the suicidal behavior of others, including family members, peers, or even in the media. Suicidal behavior is most often related to a mental disorder (depression) or to alcohol or other substance abuse. www.medicinenet.com /suicide/article.htm   (866 words)

Suicide and suicidal behavior Suicidal behavior is any deliberate action with potentially life-threatening consequences, such as taking a drug overdose or deliberately crashing a car. Suicidal behaviors often occur as a response to a situation that the person views as overwhelming, such as social isolation, death of a loved one, emotional trauma, serious physical illness, growing old, unemployment or financial problems, guilt feelings, and alcohol or other drug dependence. Suicide attempts should always be taken seriously and mental health care should be sought immediately. www.pennhealth.com /ency/article/001554.htm   (647 words)

Focus Adolescent Services: Teen Suicide Friendships play key role in suicidal thoughts of girls ~ This research found that girls were nearly twice as likely to think about suicide if they had only a few friends and felt isolated from their peers. Suicide and the Agony of Separateness ~ An attempter's "victim psychology" may be the logical outcome of his own subtle but deadly ego trip. Teen depression and thoughts of suicide are more common than many adults assume and there are as many as 50 to 100 suicide attempts for every young person who actually takes his or her own life. www.focusas.com /Suicide.html   (1969 words)

Suicide Attempts Although the rate of suicide in teen-agers aged 15 to 19 is low compared with the general adult population, the rate of teen suicide has risen dramatically in the last 50 years. Most often, a suicide attempt is self-evident at presentation, either because the patient or family indicates that such an event has occurred or because there is an acute medical or surgical emergency (i.e., overdose or wrist laceration). Suicidal patients often are fraught with ambivalence over whether to live or die, and intervention and effective treatment can be lifesaving. www.health.am /psy/more/suicide_attempts   (725 words)

Teenage mental health, suicide prevention, A Family Guide Suicide rates for Native American youth (17.5 percent of deaths) are high compared to overall youth rates (12 percent of deaths). Suicide attempts are not easy to count because many may not be treated in a hospital or may not be recorded as self-inflicted injury. Suicide can occur in clusters, sometimes as a ripple effect of the suicide of a friend or a celebrity that receives widespread media coverage. family.samhsa.gov /talk/suicide.aspx   (518 words)

Screening for Suicide Risk: Recommendation and Rationale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Suicidal ideation with a specific plan of action is associated with a significant risk for attempted suicide. Although the incidence of suicide is low in the general population (0.01%), it was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States in 2000, with an age-adjusted rate of 10.6 per 100,000 people. Because no direct evidence was found regarding the impact of screening on suicide attempts or completions, the USPSTF examined the accuracy of screening tests and the efficacy of treatment on intermediate outcomes, such as reduced suicidal ideation, reduced severity of depression, reduced hopelessness, and improved level of functioning. www.ahrq.gov /clinic/3rduspstf/suicide/suiciderr.htm   (1785 words)

Suicide Attempts and Physical Fighting Among High School Students --- United States, 2001 The findings indicate that suicide attempt status was associated with involvement in physical fighting for both males and females; students in grades 9--12; four racial/ethnic populations; and youths living in urban, suburban, and rural areas. The observed association between suicide attempts and fighting across demographic populations suggests that violence prevention programs directed at reducing both suicide and fighting are likely to be relevant for youths. However, the mechanisms linking suicidal behavior and interpersonal violence are unclear; these results do not permit an assessment of the extent to which suicidal and fighting behaviors are directly associated or the direction of the association. www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5322a3.htm   (1344 words)

Suicide (2) Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for children ages 10-14 and the third leading cause of death for teenagers 15-19. A suicide attempt means a child is trying to kill his or herself but survives. Looking at it another way, children and teenagers who attempt suicide are 8 times more likely to have a mood disorder, three times more likely to have an anxiety disorder, and 6 times more likely to have a substance abuse problem. www.klis.com /chandler/pamphlet/dep/Suicide.htm   (2679 words)

Suicide and Young Adults Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 14 to 25 in the United States. Some people who are suicidal are very good at hiding their emotional pain, that is why it is okay to just come out and ask if you think someone is hurting on the inside. Remember, just because a suicidal person may get professional help and overcome his suicidal feelings, this in itself does not mean those feelings will not return, especially when the person is confronted once again by the stress and the problems that caused him or her to consider suicide in the first place. www.coolnurse.com /suicide.htm   (2228 words)

NAMI | Suicide in Youth According to one recent case-control study (Brent et al., 1999) the effective targeting of a handful of risk factors, namely past suicide attempt, psychopathology in the adolescent, parental psychopathology, and gun in the home, is likely to result in a substantial reduction in the suicide rate among youth. Treatment compliance and endpoint measures of suicidal ideation and depression have been shown to be superior in a family intervention plus an educational intervention at intake in the emergency room, relative to the family intervention alone for adolescent Latina suicide attempters (Rotheram-Borus et al., 1996). In a study of adolescents who made repeat suicide attempts, subjects randomized to a group treatment that involved elements of interpersonal therapy, cognitive therapy, and DBT showed a trend toward decreasing reattempt and a significant decrease in the number of subjects who made more than one attempt upon follow-up (Wood et al., 2001). www.nami.org /Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Suicide_in_Youth.htm   (1438 words)

eMedicine - Suicide : Article by Stephen Soreff, MD In 1995, the suicide rate for men was 18.6 occurrences per 100,000 population, and for women it was 4.1 occurrences per 100,000 population. Hospitalization for a psychiatric disorder is quite prevalent in the suicidal population (Agerbo, 2006). Patients with a strong family history of suicide: Family history of suicide is especially indicative of suicide risk if the patient is approaching the anniversary of such a death or the age at which the relative committed suicide. www.emedicine.com /med/topic3004.htm   (5156 words)

Suicide Reference Library Individuals with personality disorders and a history of self-mutilation could be at a greater risk of suicide because they underestimate the lethality of their suicide attempts. Self-mutilators perceived their suicide attempts as less lethal, with a greater likelihood of rescue and with less certainty of death. Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the authors stress that their findings 'cast doubt on the clinical notion that suicide attempts of self-mutilators represent attention-seeking acts and do not have to be treated with the same seriousness as the attempts of other patients'. www.suicidereferencelibrary.com /test4~id~469.php   (203 words)

suicide When attempting suicide, men are apt to use more lethal methods that cannot be interrupted, like guns and hanging. Suicide rates are inversely related to level of education, and are higher for persons who are single, divorced, separated, or widowed. Suicide risk attributed to alcohol use, living alone, and not having a high school degree together match the risks of gun ownership. www.co.missoula.mt.us /measures/suicide.htm   (802 words)

NIMH: Cognitive Therapy Reduces Repeat Suicide Attempts by 50 Percent Recent suicide attempters treated with cognitive therapy were 50 percent less likely to try to kill themselves again within 18 months than those who did not receive the therapy, report researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most had attempted to kill themselves by drug overdosing (58 percent), with 17 percent by stabbing, 7 percent by jumping, and 4 percent by hanging, shooting or drowning. In a relapse-prevention task near the end of their therapy, they were asked to focus directly on the events, thoughts, feelings and behaviors that led to their previous suicide attempts and explain how they would respond in a more adaptive way. www.nimh.nih.gov /press/ctsuicide.cfm   (718 words)

Suicide - Frequently Asked Questions Some right-to-die advocacy groups promote the idea that suicide, including assisted suicide, can be a rational decision.  Others have argued that suicide is never a rational decision and that it is the result of depression, anxiety and fear of being dependent or a burden. Another way about thinking of suicide risk and depression is to examine the lives of people who have died by suicide and see what proportion of them were depressed. Following exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one's family or peer group, suicide risk can be  minimized by having family members, friends, peers, and colleagues of the victim evaluated by a mental health professional.  Persons deemed at risk for suicide should then be referred for additional mental health services. www.athealth.com /Consumer/disorders/suicidefaq.html   (490 words)

NAMI | Suicide - Learn more, learn to help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Raising the question of suicide shows you are taking the person seriously and responding to the potential of his/her distress. If the suicide attempt is a long way off (say, in five years) danger is clearly not imminent. If the person who feels suicidal is cooperative and has a clear plan to reach out for help, the danger is less than if they are stubborn, secretive, hostile, and unwilling to ask for help. www.nami.org /helpline/suicide.htm   (1020 words)

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Suicide and suicidal behavior Suicidal behaviors often occur in response to a situation that the person views as overwhelming, such as social isolation, death of a loved one, emotional trauma, serious physical illness, aging, unemployment or financial problems, guilty feelings, or dependence on alcohol or other drug. Suicide is now the third leading cause of death for 15- to 19-year-olds, after accidents and homicide. A person who threatens or attempts suicide MUST be evaluated immediately by a mental health professional. www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/001554.htm   (700 words)

suicide 2k6: Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, major depressive episode, and substance use among adults, ... Adults with a past year major depressive episode who reported past month binge alcohol or illicit drug use were more likely to report suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts than their counterparts with past year depression who had not did not binge drink or use an illicit drug in the past month. In 2004, an estimated 106,079 emergency department visits were the result of drug-related suicide attempts by persons aged 18 or older. A psychiatric condition was diagnosed in 41% (43,176) of the drug-related suicide attempts treated in the emergency departments. www.drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov /2k6/suicide/suicide.cfm   (463 words)

Strong link found between teen smoking and suicide attempts Daily smoking is strongly related to suicide attempts and self-mutilation among teens hospitalized for psychiatric illnesses, according to a study done in collaboration with a Yale researcher. Researchers found that adolescents who smoked were four times as likely to attempt suicide as those who did not smoke. Lappalainen says smoking in adolescence may be one of several other health-risk behaviors or factors in suicide attempts, such as substance abuse and family dysfunction. suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /tsmsui.html   (347 words)

Guantanamo suicide attempts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Now, any detainee thought to be a suicide risk is placed in a tear-proof anti-suicide smock _ which can't be fashioned into a makeshift noose _ for 72 hours and given a psychological exam... The lawyers report that at least one of their clients attributes the confiscation to the premise that they might contain hints that the suicide bids were pre-planned, and possibly were encouraged by detainee's lawyers. Joshe Natreen, the American lawyer of seven Saudi detainees, reported that a Guantanamo official informed her that another Saudi had made a suicide attempt since June 10, 2006. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guantanamo_suicide_attempts   (2262 words)

Muhammad's Suicide Attempts Symptoms such as flashbacks or nightmares may suddenly begin happening years after the event took place, resulting in social isolation, panic attacks, angry outbursts or substance abuse, which may be an attempt to forget.             While I am not a psychiatrist, it is obvious that anyone who consistently attempts suicide over a period of years is suffering from some type of mental illness.             Muhammad's suicide attempts are documented in several prominent Islamic source materials:  Bukhari's "Sahih" collection of Hadith, Ibn Ishaq's "Sirat Rasulallah", Ibn Sa'd's, "Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir", and Tabari's "Ta'rikh al-rulul wa'l-muluk". www.answering-islam.org /Silas/suicide.htm   (4845 words)

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