Eradicating Suicide Attempt
Written by Joseph Baring III, MD, Psychiatry
According to the world Health Organization (WHO) that approximately (1) one million
people die each year that caused by suicide. Now, my question is What makes or
pushes so many individuals to take their own lives? To those people who are not in the
clutches or grips of suicidal, depression and hopelessness, it is difficult for them to
understand what makes individuals who are in depression or hopelessness takes their
own lives. suicidal individuals is in so much pain that they can see no other option, they
never perceive other choices.
Suicide is a hopeless and desperate move to make an attempt just to escape suffering
that has become unbearable and insufferable. People who are in depression and
hopelessness is blinded by feelings or personality-loathing, and isolation, a suicidal
individual can not see any way or solution of finding support or relief except through
death or committing suicide. Besides, even though they wish for the pain to stop,
generally suicidal people are profoundly and intensely diverged or conflicted about
taking their own lives. they are wishing that there is an alternative to suicide, but they
just cannot see another one.
In this connection, most suicidal persons provide such warning signs or signals of their
objectives, intentions, and plans. Maybe for me the best or the finest way of solution to
prevent or to extirpate suicide is to recognize the warnings and signs and know how to
respond them if we perceive someone who is about to take his or her own life. I believe
that a friend or family member can be a suicidal, we can play a role as a suicide
prevention by pointing out the alternatives, that persons who are in depression and
hopelessness can perceive that we care about them and getting a physician, or a
psychologist involved.
Foremost warnings and signs for suicide includes talking about or tackling about killing
or harming his or herself, talking or writing a lot about killing or death, and looking for
things that could used as a weapon in attempting ending his or her own life, such as
knife, rope or it could be a drug. These signs and signals are even more hazardous and
unsafe. If the person has a mood disorder such as depression or a bipolar disorder, that
deteriorates or suffers from alcohol dependence, has beforehand endeavored suicide,
or has a family record or history of suicide.
A further delicate, but similarly dangerous, warning and signals of suicide is
hopelessness. According to what I have read that the hopelessness is a strong
forecaster or predictor of suicide. Persons who feel hopelessness may talk about,
“insufferable” feelings, predicts a gloomy and depressive future, and state that they
have nothing to do with it or they have nothing to look forward to.
Moreover, another warning signals that point to a suicidal way of thinking frame might
include a dramatic mood swings or unexpected or rapidly personality changes, such as
switching from outgoing to inward or introvert or from prim and proper to rebellious
defiant. Based on my own ideas and knowledge that a suicidal person may also lose his
or her interest in his or her daily activities, disregard or neglect his or her appearance, or
show a big alteration or their eating or sleep patterns. Suicide warnings and signs
includes the talking about suicides, dying, or self-harming, such as “I wish I hadn’t been
born,” “If I see you again”, or “I’d be better off dead”, those phrases could be a warning
and signal of taking their own oneself. Another warning of committing suicide when they
are seeking out lethal weapons or seeking access to guns, pills or drugs, knifes, even
rope it could be, or other objects that could be used in taking of oneself life.
In addition, a suicide person, is preoccupied with death, or unusual focus on death. In
real experience I had a long conversation of someone who attempted suicide, she told
me that she used to write poems about death and making stories about murder and
death. According to her that she was self-loathing or self-hatred, she felt of
hopelessness and being trapped, her perception before was he believe that things will
never get better.
In line with this we can help a person who has an ideation of committing suicide by
“Asking”, if we felt worried that someone we know that he or she is going to take his or
her own life, rather than questioning or doubting it are concerns are true, then it is okay
to reach out or just ask if he or she thinking about suicide, on my own perception being
direct, without giving verdict may open the door for a deeper conversation about how
they are feeling. Taking to someone who has suicidal thoughts and feelings is extremely
challenging and difficult for anyone. But if we are unsure whether someone is suicidal,
we have to ask what they feel and what are their thoughts. We can’t make the person
who has suicidal thoughts and ideation showing that we care. As matter of fact,
providing a suicidal person the opportunity to express their feelings can provide relief
from loneliness and pent-up negative feelings, and could prevent a suicide attempt.
In addition, in helping a suicidal person we can play a role of “responds quickly in a
crisis”, if someone is telling us that they are imagining and contemplating about the
death or committing suicide, I think it is important to assess and evaluate the immediate
threat or danger of the person is in. those suicidal individual who is in the high risk for
committing suicide in the near future have a specific suicide idea the method to carry
out the plan, a time set for doing it and an intention to do it.
In this connection, the other tips or methods in eradicating or extirpating suicide is to
“offer help and support”, the finest way to help is by offering an emphatic, listening
ear. Let them know that they are not alone, and you care about him or her. You must
make a personal commitment to recovery.
