1. Suicide IS The Answer? When No One Knows Your Pain
When No Hope Is In Your Sight
When You Feel You Can't Go On
Presented by LiJing

2. Suicide Case Study
Kate was a 23-year-old fashion assistant buyer for a large department store. Over a 2-year period she became somewhat depressed. She attributed her poor mood to exhaustion brought on by the constant strain of her job. She began going to a psychotherapist but stopped after only a few sessions because she didn’t think she could be helped. Feeling hopeless, she occasionally gave some thought to suicide; it would provide a release from the constant strain she was under-and Why not? She had nothing to live for. On a number of occasions Kate made comments to her friends like

3. Suicide Case Study
“Nothing seems to be going right; sometimes I feel like stepping in front of a truck” or “Probably the best thing for me to do tonight is to take all the pills in my medicine cabinet and just not wake up tomorrow morning.” Her friends knew that Kate was depressed, but they thought she would snap out of it, and they did not take her comments about suicide seriously. When Kate do not come for work for 2 days and did not answer her phone, a friend went to her apartment. She found Kate dead in her bed with a variety of empty pill bottles next to her. Kate had left a short note in which she simply apologized for not being a better person.

4. Suicide Case Study
Why do people commit suicide?
Are there Reasons other than depression and stress?
Can suicide be prevented?

5. Issue involved with Suicide
Gender and Age
Culture
Timing of Suicides
Myths about Suicide 

6.     Myths about Suicide Myth Reality
People who talk about suicide won’t commit suicide
All suicidal behaviors are designed to end life
Only very depressed persons commit suicide
Suicide rates are higher in winter than in Summer    

7. Depression Stress Fantasy Explanations Psychodynamic Explanations
“I wish I were dead”

8. Fantasy: Final Fantasy?
Reuniting with a deceased person
Rebirth
Self-punishment
Revenge
“This would not have happened if you had been nicer to me”

9. Learning Explanations
Imitation
Behavioral Contagion
when (1) an individual wants to do something.
(2) is restrained from doing it because society said it is wrong
(3) sees someone else do it and “get away with it”
(4) thinks that he/she can get away with it also
Rewards

10. Cognitive Explanations
Poor Problem Solving Skills
Hopelessness
Hopelessness is the belief that “thing s won’t get better”
Delusions and Hallucinations
Reasons for Not Committing Suicide

11. Factors that reduce suicidal intent
Survival and coping beliefs:
“I still have many things left to do”
Responsibility to family:
“It would hurt my family too much, and I would not want them to suffer”
Fear of suicide:
“I am a coward and do not have the guts to do it”
Fear of social disapproval:
“I would not want other people to think I did not have control over my life.”
Moral objections:
“I am afraid of going to hell”

12. Physiological Explanations
Low Levels of Serotonin
Low Levels of Cholesterol
Genetic Factors

13. Mode of Action Low levels of serotonin Stress
Depression and lack of inhibition
Low levels of serotonin
Suicide
Genes
Low Levels of Cholesterol

14. Suicide Prevention
Education
Therapy, Medication and ECT
Crisis Management

15. Case Study Why do people commit suicide?
Suicide is a complex behavior. Yes, depression, hopelessness, and stress are major causes of suicide, but…
What should be done when someone talks about suicide or makes a suicide attempt?
The most important thing is that you should not ignore the real or implies threat.
Can suicide be prevented?
Often yes, but in many cases no, either because the treatments do not work or because people do not come in for treatment.

16. Suicide Culture Religion Imitation Depression Behavioral Contagion
Rewards
Stress
Suicide
Fantasy
Genetic Factors
Low Levels of Cholesterol
Delusions and Hallucinations
Low Levels of Serotonin
Poor Problem Solving Skills
Hopelessness

17. Suicide is NOT the answer I Wish for You a Beautiful Life
When No One Knows Your Pain
When No Hope Is In Your Sight
When You Feel You Can't Go On
I Wish for You a Beautiful Life
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