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    Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US. Risk factors include past suicide attempts, psychiatric disorders like depression, substance abuse, access to lethal methods like firearms, and chronic pain. Evaluation involves assessing ideation, method, plan and intent, though suicide cannot be perfectly predicted. Warning signs include threats of self-harm, changes in mood, and reckless behavior. Common methods are firearms, suffocation, and poisoning. Cutting is a form of self-injury sometimes used by teenagers to deal with negative emotions. Risk factors for cutting include a history of abuse and mental health issues.

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    Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US. Risk factors include past suicide attempts, psychiatric disorders like depression, substance abuse, access to lethal methods like firearms, and chronic pain. Evaluation involves assessing ideation, method, plan and intent, though suicide cannot be perfectly predicted. Warning signs include threats of self-harm, changes in mood, and reckless behavior. Common methods are firearms, suffocation, and poisoning. Cutting is a form of self-injury sometimes used by teenagers to deal with negative emotions. Risk factors for cutting include a history of abuse and mental health issues.

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    Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US. Risk factors include past suicide attempts, psychiatric disorders like depression, substance abuse, access to lethal methods like firearms, and chronic pain. Evaluation involves assessing ideation, method, plan and intent, though suicide cannot be perfectly predicted. Warning signs include threats of self-harm, changes in mood, and reckless behavior. Common methods are firearms, suffocation, and poisoning. Cutting is a form of self-injury sometimes used by teenagers to deal with negative emotions. Risk factors for cutting include a history of abuse and mental health issues.

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    Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US. Risk factors include past suicide attempts, psychiatric disorders like depression, substance abuse, access to lethal methods like firearms, and chronic pain. Evaluation involves assessing ideation, method, plan and intent, though suicide cannot be perfectly predicted. Warning signs include threats of self-harm, changes in mood, and reckless behavior. Common methods are firearms, suffocation, and poisoning. Cutting is a form of self-injury sometimes used by teenagers to deal with negative emotions. Risk factors for cutting include a history of abuse and mental health issues.

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    Suicide

    Amal Benchakroun
    Suicide
    • 10th leading cause of death in the US – 2015

    • Suicidal ideation prevalence 2% per year and 9% in


    lifetime

    • Suicide attempt are common. 30 attempts for every


    death
    Risk factors
    • Acute/Dynamic
    • Chronic/static

    • Past attempts
    • Substance use
    • Depression
    • family/Peer suicide • Hopelessness
    • Loss of support system
    • Psychiatric illness • Change in therapeutic
    alliance
    • Chronic/ Terminal • Suicide plan/ intent
    illness/ Pain • Ease of access to lethal
    methods
    • Doom/gloom delusions.
    • Gender Existential qs
    Risk Factors.
    • Previous suicide attempt
    o Strongest single factor predictive of suicide.
    o 1% of people that attempt suicide die within 1 year of attempt.
    Risk 100 x greater than general population.

    • Psychiatric disorder
    o Psychiatric illness (severity) is a strong predictor of suicide
    o >90% attempt suicide have a psychiatric disorder and 95% who
    successfully commit suicide have a psychiatric diagnosis
    o Inpatient hospitalization
    o Depression, bipolar disorder, alcoholism or other substance
    abuse, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders
    including panic disorder, PTSD, and delirium
    o Combination of more than one the above increase the risk 2-3x
    Risk Factors.
    • Age: Female more attempts, Male more completion.
    • Hopelessness: suicidal ideation and attempts
    • Marital status: Single
    • Sexual minority: 2x > heterosexual. Bisexual>homosexual
    • Occupation: >unskilled occupation (labors vs managers)
    except: Physicians and nurses
    • General medical illness and chronic pain
    • Fam hx, genetics, child abuse
    • Firearms
    • Rural residence
    • Low income, unemployment
    • Antidepressant 18-24yr old in the first 2 mo
    Methods
    • Firearms: Leading methods. 50% of deaths
    o meta-analysis of 10 observational studies found that the risk of completed
    suicide was three times greater among adults with access to firearms,
    compared with individuals without available firearms

    • Suffocation: eg. Hanging 25%

    • Poisoning: eg. Drug overdose 15%


    Methods
    Adult suicide safety plan
    Evaluation
    • Many seek help. Directly or indirectly.

    • Assess for ideation, method, plan, and intent.

    • Can’t predict who would and wouldn’t die by


    suicide.
    • No empirically supported method for incorporating
    risk and protective variables – Clinical Judgment
    • Some advances have been made in the long-term
    prediction of suicidal behavior but no study has
    been able to predict the short-term of suicide risk
    Warning Signs
    • Recent threats or action to hurt/kill self

    • Focusing, talking, writing about suicide or death

    • Hopelessness or trapped

    • Reckless behavior

    • Increased substance use

    • Anxiety and/or sleep problems

    • Significant change in mood or behavior


    Cutting
    Self injury - Cutting
    • Form of self harm where patient hurts themselves to
    help deal with emotions or distress.
    o Teenagers

    • Why?
    o Deal with negative emotions – seen as positive action to express
    feelings and feel in control
    • Depression, rage, guilt, emptiness or self hatred
    • Distraction from difficult life event
    • Relief from guilt as a form of self punishement
    • A way to feel more alive

    o Non suicidal self injury


    Cutting – Risk Factors
    • Life issues: Many with child abuse in some way. Sexual,
    physical or emotional, or a case of neglect.

    • Teenagers: More likely to cut themselves. Self-harm


    often begins in the early teen years due to emotional
    ups and downs, peer pressure, loneliness and conflicts
    with authority figures.
    • Mental Health: Negative emotions. Cutters tend to be
    more impulsive and have poor cognitive skills.
    • Mental disorders: borderline personality disorder,
    depression, anxiety disorder, PTSD and eating disorders
    are at a higher risk of cutting.
    • Substance Abuse: drugs and EtOH
    The end

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