...Suicidal Behaviors Jennifer Pavlick Rasmussen College Author Note This assignment is being submitted on June 13, 2016, for Professor Kehiante McKinley’s G148/PSY1012 Section 02 General Psychology course. Research and psychological studies show that suicidal behavior stems from at least one or more mental disorders that are treatable. Individuals with suicidal behaviors often feel hopeless which contributes to these behaviors and can lead to suicide attempts or succession. Recognizing these behaviors can save someone’s life, being compassionate, empathetic, and proactive can greatly reduce an individual’s suicide behavior. The goal is to recognize these behaviors and get help for these individuals quickly. “In the past three decades, there has been a dramatic increase in rates of suicidal behavior, including suicidal thoughts, attempts, and death.” (Beautrais, 2003, para. 2). This increase in these behaviors is frightening. Knowing the contributing factors to suicidal behaviors is the first step in understanding the type of help that is needed for individuals. According to DeMaso there are definite risk factors and causes that contribute to these behaviors. The risk factors include family history of suicidal attempt or succession, substance abuse, self-harming, and access to guns. Family history of mental illness and suicide succession heightens other family members to watch for signs of depression or suicidal behavior, in such cases keeping guns and medications...
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...(1992) also observed that depressed women reported ―a loss of self‖ either they were with the history of domestic violence or not. Findings of another study indicated that physical and psychological violence by close family members is very common and leading to intimidation, emotional trauma, continued depression, suicidal ideations, and suicidal attempts among women (Sheikh, 2000). Women with the history of domestic violence are fatally depressed and demeaned by their abuser, there seems to be...
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...Group Project – Final Draft Multiple Sclerosis – The Physical and Behavioral Effects Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, or Demyelinating disease; a disease that not many are aware of. It is “an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).” (A.D.A.M. Inc, 2011) The symptoms vary depending on the individual affected by the disease, and it also differs in duration for each symptom. In this paper, we will discuss the definition of Multiple Sclerosis, review the main symptoms affecting Multiple Sclerosis patients and their loved ones, its risk factors, how to recognize potential symptoms, the tests available, and support groups that can provide more information on this disease as well as how to cope with it. Depression is one of the main side effects Multiple Sclerosis patients have; it is unfortunately very common for someone with Multiple Sclerosis to experience depression. To learn more about the disease, we have to understand what MS is. Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is an auto-immune disease that affects your brain’s nervous system; the “T-Cells” attack your neurons which function is to send signals to your brain. Each nerve cell control different parts of your body and emotions; having the T-cells attacking your emotional nerves can impact your way of living. If these T-cells damage the nerves of the brain that are involved in emotional expression and control; it can create a variety of behavioral changes resulting in depression...
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...General Practitioner Paper SWK 6370 10/3/2014 | Assessment (Hepworth, 2013, p. 192-193) Client is Ms. Juana Hernandez, though Will County Health Department, made referral to Joliet Area Community Hospice- it increasingly hard to cope with her 9 year old son’s death. As the anniversary of his death comes near, client has thoughts of suicide and finds it unbearable to face the fact that her son is dead. Ms. Hernandez is 38, single mom, and has two daughters, ages 5 and 8. She lives in a two bedroom apartment. * Ms. Hernandez is currently facing legal problems for driving on a suspended license. Client drives to and from appointments; thus raising concerns. Client is currently being treated for suicidal thoughts related to her son’s death. She reports that she’s taking all prescribed medications and has no thoughts of hurting herself and/or others. * Ms. Hernandez also expresses concerns for her other two daughters in the household. The girls are 5 and 8 years old. Recently her daughter (5 year old) had been playing in her room unattended and somehow managed to fall from the second floor window. The daughter told her mother that her deceased brother told her to play with him. The client acknowledges that she and her 5 year old daughter are being medically treated for Bipolar Disorder. Client has also been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. * She was sexually assaulted as a teenager and has not sought counseling to cope with the effects of the assault. Client appears...
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...This paper looks at how depression continues to be one of most common medical conditions for the elderly. It also examines the increase in the suicidal tendencies of the depressed, taking into account the wrong assumption that aging necessitates depression and the difficulty of health care providers in recognizing depression. It examines how symptoms may take months to worsen and show up and how aging individuals should be treated similarly to younger patients when seen by the doctor. It is up to family and health care providers to be vigilant and notice changes, and with care, individuals can be helped. Some of these symptoms include depressed mood, loss of interest in work and activities, psychic anxiety, somatic symptoms, general (decreased energy), somatic anxiety, guilt, middle insomnia, late insomnia, and suicidal ideation. Literature into the issue of depression and the suicide rate where elderly people are concerned is important for several reasons. Consider these facts: The highest rate of suicide in the United States is among the elderly population. Moreover, suicide rates steadily increase as age advances in individuals of all races and both genders. Those that are 65 years and older successfully complete suicide fifty percent more often than the national average. Every 90 minutes a senior citizen in the United States commits suicide. Population experts estimate that by 2030, the elderly population will be about 20% of the population-about 75 million people (Heisel...
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...Suicide terrorism is not a new phenomenon. From the 11th-century Assassins — whose brazen and usually public murders of their rivals invited immediate death to the perpetrators — to Vietcong sympathizers who blew up themselves and U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, many people have proven their willingness to perish while carrying out attacks in pursuit of their political goals. Yet, the “modern” expressions of the suicide terror phenomenon surfaced with the appearance of the first suicide terrorists in Lebanon, more than 20 years ago. Suicide attacks began in Lebanon in 1983 (some say 1981, when a sole suicide attack hit the Iraqi embassy in Beirut), at the instigation of Hizbollah, a Lebanese Shiite terror organization. Six months after an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, simultaneous truck bombings killed 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers; just four months later, U.S. troops left Lebanon. Five other organizations (most of them not religious) in Lebanon carried out about 50 suicide attacks before this modus operandi was exported to other areas of the world. The use of suicide attacks garnered considerable prestige for the perpetrators and their organizations — particularly in light of the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, which many attributed to the bombings — and turned the act into a symbol of martyrdom and a source of inspiration for other terror organizations worldwide. What made these actions unprecedented was their scale: driving cars or trucks filled...
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...Definitions to the problem of suicide are important in order to gather more evidence based data and prevent occurrences. Self-harm is when a person deliberately does a behavior such as cutting with the intention of harming his or herself (Moran et al., 2012, p.236). Suicidal ideation is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “thinking about, considering, or planning for suicide” (CDC, 2013). One of the goals of research on suicidal ideation is to identify those who actually will attempt a suicide because of this ideation (Holliday, 2012, p.6).. Suicide attempt is defined as a self directed harmful behavior that does not end in death but is performed with an intent to die; whereas the term suicide or completed suicide...
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...A. Background of the Study B. Statement of the Problem This study aims to answer the following questions: 1. What is suicide? 2. What are the manifestation of a person with suicidal behavior? 3. How is suicide prevented? C. Scope and Delimitations This study about the prevention of suicidal behavior will cover the prevention and the many causes of suicidal behavior as well as the circumstances that may lead to possible suicide attempt. However, in this paper, we will not be covering the therapy approaches for a person who’s already committed suicide. This research will also not cover the developmental factor that may lead to suicidal propensity. D. Significance of the Study This study will be beneficial to the following groups of people:...
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...No. 12, December 1996 Suicidal Behavior Runs in Families A Controlled Family Study of Adolescent Suicide Victims David A. Brent, MD; Jeff Bridge; Barbara A. Johnson, MD; John Connolly, MA Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1996;53(12):1145-1152. Abstract Background: While previous studies have shown an increased rate of suicidal behavior in the relatives of suicide victims, it is unclear if this is attributable merely to increased familial rates of psychiatric disorders. Therefore, we conducted a family study of adolescent suicide victims (suicide probands) and community control probands (controls) to determine if the rates of suicidal behavior were higher in the relatives of adolescent suicide probands even after adjusting for differences in the familial rates of psychiatric disorders. Method: The relatives of 58 adolescent suicide probands and 55 demographically similar controls underwent assessment for Axis I and II psychiatric disorders, lifetime history of aggression, and history of suicidal behavior (attempts and completions) using a combination of family study and family history approaches. Results: The rate of suicide attempts was increased in the first-degree relatives of suicide probands compared with the relatives of controls, even after adjusting for differences in rates of proband and familial Axis I and II disorders (odds ratio, 4.3; 95% confidence intervals, 1.1-16.6). On the other hand, the excess rate of suicidal ideation found in the relatives...
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...My Father… You’ll never understand how someone else feels about someone close to them leaving until you’re actually in their shoes. Not only someone close to you, but someone you loved and still love and care about to this very day. It was always compassion for them until my father left me at the age of five years old. I don’t think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they’re encountered with the dreadful and heart breaking news. My father, Joseph Clarence Reed, will forever be a part of me. Today, I still wish he would just walk through the doors and hug me very tight, his little girl still. There are very little times I dream about him, and it’s as if he were here with me. It’s foolish and childish of me to feel this way, but he was not only my father but my friend. He was always there for me when the times got rough and at the best of times, but it’s no longer that way because he’s gone. No child at all should have to bury their parent at such a young age. It was October 5, 2002 around 7 a.m. when my mother got the call and she came into my room and woke me up crying. I was looking and became terrified, curious to know what happened. Being the age I was, I just looked at her stunned, thinking what is going on. She got me out of bed and hugged me and cried. That exact morning, majority of my family showed up to our house to mourn and talk with my mother. I was wondering why everyone was in such a low-spirited mood; I knew it was something bad, I just...
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...why or how medication works, they are slapped on with tons of side effects. The positive almost gets buried underneath a fog surrounding anything medicine related. Antidepressants often have backlashes such as inducing suicidal thoughts, but through careful monitoring of the treatment, it can be prevented. Often times, antidepressants have negative effects at first because the patient's brain and body are not used to it, but afterwards the effects subside and the patient feels much better. During these first stages of taking medication, it is crucial for friends, family and the doctor to pay attention to any changes in the patient as well as symptoms of any side...
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...The mind of a person is an amazing attribute, it allows an individual to process, evaluate and determine a concept in relation to life. Unfortunately, though a person's mind is an astounding attribute, a person mind can also become ill. One diagnostic that greatly affect the mind is a disorder known as Schizophrenia. Such illness affects the thought process of an individual, various symptoms such as paranoia, suicidal thoughts, hallucination, isolation, religious preoccupation and delusions takes an impact of the mind in whom host this disorder. Ashley Smith a certified Peer specialist, mental health advocate, and non-fiction author is a blogger who focuses on her ability to cope with schizophrenia. In her blogs she speaks about various dimensions of her experience, expressing and explaining all that she has encounter within this world of schizophrenia....
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...Sacrificial, Suicidal Salvation “Gather around, the table, young ones,” rumbled the elder. His mandibles clacked together as he adjusted his insectoid limbs for greater comfort on the solid ground. The hatchlings patiently sat in a semicircle around the elder as they awaited the story. The sun was growing brighter in the sky, and the hatchlings needed their sleep. The elder buzzed to himself and shuffled his iridescent wings. This particular group is almost ready to pupate, the elder thought. Today, I will tell them the story of the saviors. “You are in for a treat, hatchlings. This is the night you will hear about the saviors.” Humming filled the small clearing, as the hatchlings grew excited. “Quiet down, quiet down! Do you wish to hear the story?” hummed the elder....
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...Topics that I would include are: depression/suicidal ideations, sex-role identification, and developing a sense of identification. Early adolescents go through a stage where they are trying to figure out who they are. Additionally, they are influenced by their environment and some of these influences may not have a positive impact on the adolescent. During this transitional stage in life, mental health associated hormones are difficult to identify. There is a rise in hormones which plays an important role in the emotional state. The emotional state of an adolescent is very unpredictable, one minute they are depressed/withdrawn and the next minute that are happy and enjoyable. These mood swings begin to level out as they go from early...
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...Specific Aims Despite the years of suicidal research, there has not been a significant decrease in adolescent suicidality (suicidal ideations and behavior) in the last 50 years. Suicide continues to be the second leading cause of death among 10 to 24-year old?s globally with many more adolescents contemplating and attempting suicide (World Health Organization, 2010). The slow progress of knowledge generated in the study of suicidality may be related to the fragmented approach taken to investigate what puts an individual at risk (Stewart, et al., 2017). Research has identified multiple suicidal risk factors such as psychopathology, suicidal ideations, stressful life events, poor academic performance, and low familial and social support....
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