This document discusses suicide prevention and warning signs. It notes that suicidal thoughts should not be ignored and one should seek help from others. The document then lists common triggers for suicidal thoughts like loss, illness, family history of suicide, and more. It outlines behaviors that may indicate suicide risk such as giving away possessions, isolation, and talking about death. The document stresses that suicidal feelings can be prevented by seeking help from others and engaging in activities. It provides examples of thoughts someone contemplating suicide may express.
2. If you have started think of suicide, it
important to catch these thoughts before they
get out of hand and you start to take action.
Don't let embarrassment stand in the way of
you trying to tell someone what been going on.
Take immediate action and talk to somebody as
soon as it happens.
3. This is a chart of what happens in the past
years of people who had suicide thoughts
about killing there self.
4. When people don't understand the facts about
suicide and depressive illnesses, they may
respond in ways that can cut off
communication and worsen their feelings.
That's what make it important to find someone
you trust and can talk to honestly about
everything you had experimented. It's also
why your mental health professional is an
important resource in helping you and your
family.
5. Recent loss of a loved one
(death or divorce).
Survivor of a previous
suicide attempt.
Loss of prestige (could be
loss of job or business).
Serious illness (chronic pain
or exhaustion with no end in
sight).
Family history of suicide.
A close friend commits
suicide.
6. Talking or writing about
death/suicide.
Giving away personal
Talking about themselves in a bad
possessions.
way.
Change in Not participating in regular
behaviors/mood. activities.
Falling grades. Buying weapons, pills, etc.
Ending close Reading a lot about suicide.
relationships.
Crying a lot.
Not smiling as much.
Not doing the things
they would normal do.
Expressing negative
impressions when
normally they wouldn't.
7. During the process they feel
hopeless and alone. They also
feel a sense of personal failure.
Overwhelming sadness.
General lack of interest.
Feelings of hopelessness.
Guilt.
Withdrawal/isolation.
Feelings of being a bother to the
one around them.
8. There are many easy ways to prevent suicide. You
really think about your life and how good to keep it.
You can also talk to somebody or a close friend. You
could participate in activates to meet some friends and
get your self back in shape.
9. They would try to say stuff like it s too late now
I can't go on.
I have nothing to live for.
I'm just so tired of life.
No one cares about what happens to me.
There is nothing left to do.
What's the use.
They won't have to deal with me.
I'm at the end of my rope.
They're better off without me.
I just want the pain to stop.
Nobody gets me.
You just don't understand!