Learn more here about the development and quality assurance of healthdirect content. Read more on Beyond Blue website. Read more on Better Health Channel website. About suicide, warning signs and support if you are experiencing thoughts of suicide or harming yourself. Read more on NT Health website. Suicide and suicidal behaviour touches the lives of many people in our community but there are ways we can help prevent it.
This information will help you understand the warning signs of suicide and provide information and resources to help keep you and others safe from suicide. Some of the commonly held misconceptions about suicide or self-harm may prevent you from recognising when someone is actually at risk.
Read more on Suicide Callback Service website. If you are in distress and need help, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 now. Information, support and help regarding suicide and self-harm. Read more on Black Dog Institute website. The factors that contribute to the onset of an eating disorder are complex. No single cause of eating disorders has been identified. Read more on Butterfly Foundation website. People tell us that it was really difficult to ask someone they care about if they were having thoughts of suicide, but they never regretted it.
Look out for changes in their physical or emotional behaviour, and consider whether they've recently experienced any major life changes.
Read more on Orygen website. It is characterised by ongoing instability in the areas of interpersonal relationships, self-image and impulsivity. Read more on Ausmed Education website. The term bipolar reflects the nature of the condition: a fluctuation between extreme highs and lows.
These extreme emotional states may occur at distinct times or periods, categorised as manic, hypomanic, or depressive. Depression, however, is a diagnosable medical condition that presents in feelings of intense sadness, negativity and low-mood, lasting for a long period of time. Eating disorders are complex mental illnesses, influenced by a range of factors.
An eating disorder is an illness marked by irregular eating habits, distress about eating, and an obsession about body weight. Eating disorders are very serious, have severe health complications and can even be fatal.
Seclusion is a behavioural intervention used by mental health services, wherein a client is confined in a room alone and prevented from freely exiting. It is used as a last resort intervention in the event of a behavioural emergency and must only be used if there are no other appropriate options. Depression is a mood state that is characterised by significantly lowered mood and a loss of interest or pleasure in activities that are normally enjoyable. Such depressed mood is a common and normal experience in the population.
MYTH: The only effective intervention for suicide comes from professional psychotherapists with extensive experience in the area. FACT: All people who interact with adolescents in crisis can help them by way of emotional support and encouragement. Psychotherapeutic interventions also rely heavily on family, and friends providing a network of support.
MYTH: Most young people thinking about suicide never seek or ask for help with their problems. FACT: Evidence shows that they often tell their school peers of their thoughts and plans.
Most adults with thoughts of suicide visit a medical doctor during the three months prior to killing themselves. Adolescents are more likely to 'ask' for help through non-verbal gestures than to express their situation verbally to others. MYTH: Young people thinking about suicide are always angry when someone intervenes and they will resent that person afterwards. FACT: While it is common for young people to be defensive and resist help at first, these behaviors are often barriers imposed to test how much people care and are prepared to help.
For most adolescents considering suicide, it is a relief to have someone genuinely care about them and to be able to share the emotional burden of their plight with another person.
When questioned some time later, the vast majority express gratitude for the intervention. MYTH: Break-ups in relationships happen so frequently, they do not cause suicide. FACT: Suicide can be precipitated by the loss of a relationship. MYTH: Young people thinking about suicide are insane or mentally ill. FACT: Although adolescents thinking about suicide are likely to be extremely unhappy and may be classified as having a mood disorder, such as depression, most are not legally insane. However, there are small numbers of individuals whose mental state meets psychiatric criteria for mental illness and who need psychiatric help.
MYTH: Most suicides occur in winter months when the weather is poor. FACT: Seasonal variation data are essentially based on adult suicides, with limited adolescent data available. However, it seems adolescent suicidal behavior is most common during the spring and early summer months. While the literature in the area is incomplete, there is no definitive link between SES and suicide. This does not preclude localized tendencies nor trends in a population during a certain period of time.
MYTH: Some people are always suicidal. FACT: Nobody is suicidal at all times. The risk of suicide for any individual varies across time, as circumstances change. This is why it is important for regular assessments of the level of risk in individuals who are 'at risk'. MYTH: Every death is preventable. FACT: No matter how well intentioned, alert and diligent people's efforts may be, there is no way of preventing all suicides from occurring.
MYTH: The main problem with preventive efforts is trying to implement strategies in an extremely grey area. FACT: The problem is that we lack a complete understanding of youth suicide and know more about what is not known than what is fact.
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Myths MYTH: Talking about suicide or asking someone if they feel suicidal will encourage suicide attempts. Ask if the person are thinking about making a suicide attempt. Ask if the person has a plan. Think about the completeness of the plan and how dangerous it is. As part of the investigation, the police will want to question you. You should cooperate with them, but you have every right to ask them to conduct their investigation quickly and sensitively.
If you are the immediate next of kin but not the person who discovered and identified the body at the scene of the suicide, you will be asked to identify the body either in person or through photographs. You may choose not to identify the body yourself and ask someone else to do so. Even if the body has already been identified, you have the right to view it, and also to request that the coroner or medical examiner give you time alone with your loved one.
Research conducted with people who chose to view the body indicates that most survivors later on feel they made the right decision in doing so. While they may forever carry that last image in their mind, they also feel that the experience helped them come to terms with the reality of the death. But this comes down to a difficult and obviously stressful decision on your part — take your time, and try, as best you can, to decide what will be best for you in the long run.
Before you view the body, it is a good idea to have a friend or relative view the body or photographs of the body first to determine if the sight might be too traumatic for you. The medical examiner or coroner may discourage you from viewing the body if the suicide method has caused significant damage on the grounds that the sight will unduly upset you. This is a legitimate concern, but the decision about whether to view the body and how much of the body to view is yours to make.
In the event of a suicide, the medical examiner or coroner may be required to perform an autopsy on the body, which is a surgical procedure used to determine the cause of death.
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