SUICIDE

     
 

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own DEATH. Suicide happens as a result mental disorder, substance abuse including alcoholism, depression, personally disorder. Some suicides are impulsive acts due to stress such as from financial difficulties, troubles with relationships, or bullying.

Those that have previously attempted suicide are at a higher risk for future attempts.

Suicide is a complex issue involving numerous factors and should not be attributed to any one single cause. Not all people who die by suicide have been diagnosed with a mental illness and not all people with a mental illness attempt to end lives by suicide.

People who experience suicidal thoughts and feelings are suffering with tremendous emotional pain. People who have died by suicide typically had overwhelming feelings of hopelessness, despair, and helplessness. Suicide is not about a moral weakness or a character flaw, people considering suicide feel as though their pain will never end and that suicide is the only way to stop the suffering.

Major life changes can make one feel overwhelmed and unable to cope.

While there is a well-established link between suicide and depression, each suicide occurs in a unique ix of complex interconnected factors,individuals,environment,biological,psychological,social,cultural,historical,political and spiritual, including psychological trauma both developmental and intergenerational)

            Effective suicide prevention efforts;

  Limiting access to methods of suicide such as

1)      Firearms, drugs, and poisons ;( e.g. pesticides, medication, guns).

2)      Treating mental disorders and substance misuse;(depression, alcoholism and                     schizophrenia

3)      Proper media reporting of suicide.

4)      And improving economic conditions.

5)     Providing follow-up to people who have made suicide attempts.

6)     Training primary health care workers.

7)     Mental health promotion.

At a more personal level, it is important to know that only a small number of suicides happen without warnings of their intentions .Therefore, all threats of self-harm should be taken seriously. In addition, a majority of people who attempt suicide are ambivalent and not entirely intent on dying. Many suicides occur in a period of improvement when the person has the energy and the will to turn despairing thoughts into destructive action.

There are three areas of focus when working with suicide;

Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention (Hope, Help, and Healing) the can be understood as the before, during and after experiences of thoughts of suicide, attempts or death. Everyone has a role and contribution to preventing suicide in one or more of these areas. You don’t have to be an expert. You do not need to know how to take care of yourself and help another person get to safety if the need arises.

Prevention is the umbrella in working toward reducing deaths by suicide; increasing awareness, eliminating stigma, knowing what to do in the event that you or someone you know experiences thoughts or behaviors associated with suicide. It’s having the skills, awareness before someone is in crisis. In preventing suicide, intervention and postvention are components towards the goal of reducing suicides.

Intervention includes coping and intervention in the event that you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thinking or behaviors.

Postvention includes the skills and strategies for taking care of yourself or helping another person heal after the experience of suicide thoughts, attempts or death.

Every life counts, no situation in life is worth your life no situation should make you take your life, thank God,  many are facing X 2 of whatever you think you are facing, many dying to be in your place.YOUR OWN LIFE DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU.

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BABA, AUGUSTINA JOHN