Depression and Sucide Factor: Sign and Sucide Rate

If you are thinking about suicide, please take a minute to read this

First of all, thanks for stopping in. I want you to take your time while here. Take this time as a breather for yourself. Life is very hectic and there are many worries. It is very easy to become overwhelmed with the way things are going. It is very easy to think of suicide as an option. The reason I know this? I have been here, just where you are on the other side of the screen.

So just take 5 minutes and think about slowing down. Relax. Don't worry about anything but reading this page. Take your time, prop your feet up and stay with me a minute.

Your life must be filled with an incredible amount of pain right now. So much so that you think the pain will never end and it will always be just like this, or you may think that this is rock bottom and you have no choices left in your life.

Pain is life's way of letting us know something is wrong. That doesn't mean it will go on forever just because it seems like it right now. If you stay with us life will get easier for you. You can make it become better.

If there's one thing I could tell you it is that. Life does and will get better. Is there someone you can call? Even a hotline? Just talking to someone can really help. There are chat rooms, friends and even online counseling available to you.

The pain really does ease up after awhile. There is a way to a better tomorrow. Deciding to take your life will end the pain for you. There's no doubt about that but you will also miss out on all the beautiful things in life. You'll miss out on the rainbows, sunrises, laughter and better times in your life. They'll come. I know from being where you are on the other side of this screen that they will come if you stay with us.

There's also the question someone made me think about. What if the pain doesn't end but continues for all eternity? We don't know for sure what's on the other side. As long as we allow ourselves to live we still have the hope that tomorrow can be made better.

Most of all, I want to thank you for taking the time out to read my page. Hopefully, something here will make you feel better.

Suicide in Girls

A woman commits suicide every 90 minutes in the U.S., but it is estimated that one woman attempts suicide every 78 seconds.
Women attempt suicide twice as much as men.
The higher rate of attempted suicide in women is attributed to the elevated rate of mood disorders among females, such as major depression, dysthymia and seasonal affective disorder.
In the U.S. in 1995, the suicide rate among women was 4.4 per 100,000, while for men it was 19.8 per 100,000.
Although women attempt suicide more often, men complete suicide at a rate four times that of women.
The suicide rates for women peak between the ages of 40-54 years old, and do so again after age 75.
The suicide rate for women ages 15-24 has doubled since 1950, while the rate for younger girls ages 10-14 has nearly tripled since 1980.
The rate for young African American females ages 10-14 has quadrupled from .1 /100,000 in 1980 to .42 /100,000 in 1995.
Firearms are now the leading method of suicide in women, as well as men.
Suicide is more common among women who are single, recently separated, divorced, or widowed.
The precipitating life events for women who attempt suicide tend to be interpersonal losses or crises in significant social or family relationships.
Many women who suffer from depressive illness experience their first episode in the postpartum period. 60-80% of women experience transient depression, and 10-15% of women develop clinical depression during the postpartum period.
Women are more likely than men to have stronger social supports, to feel that their relationships are deterrents to committing suicide, and to seek psychiatric and medical intervention.
Although many effective treatments exist, suicide in women remains a much under recognized, under diagnosed, and under treated problem.

If you feel that you are suffering from depression and have thoughts of suicide you must see a doctor most people can be treated by medication signs to watch for:

Deepening Depression: A depressed, uncommunicative and withdrawn person is at risk for committing suicide. Although stressful life events do not cause depressive diseases, people who have these illnesses are more vulnerable.
Final Arrangements: A person puts their affairs in order, changes a will, washes all their clothes, gives away possessions, talks about going away.
Risk Taking or Self Destructive Bebavior may represent a death wish. A person isn't ready to take their own life but tempts fate, for instance, by reckless driving.
Sudden Elevated Mood may precede a suicide attempt. Paradoxically, a person emerging from an incapacitating episode of depression may regain the will and energy to end their life. Be alert to evidence of final arrangements.
Pre Suicidal Statements-Direct or indirect statements about suicide, hopelessness or death, even when said in a joking or off hand manner. Sometimes suicidal people leave hints. It is not true that a person who talks frequently about committing suicide won't do it. Some keep their suicidal thoughts secret, others don't.
Ask "Are you Thinking of Suicide?" Contrary to popular belief, you aren't putting ideas into a person's head. Surprisingly, they may respond to your supportive concern. You need to assess how likely an attempt may be.
Do You Have a Plan? A Method? A Means? Is it deadly? Is it available, such as a gun or enough pills for an overdose?
When? Today, next week, a vague future time?

Listen with respect. This is an illness not a moral defect. Don't challenge or dare a person to commit suicide thinking you will shock them out of the idea. If suicide seems to you to be "a permanent solution to a temporary problem," that's not the way a suicidal person sees it. One may be overwhelmed by a sudden suicidal impulse; another may make a deliberate plan and set the date.

Take Charge. Do not worry about invading someone's privacy even though they try to get you to promise secrecy. This is not a test of friendship but a response to a deadly illness. Don't leave it up to them to get help on their own. Try to arrange for professional evaluation and treatment.

Some people experience suicidal impulses even though they are under treatment. The patient needs to have their treatment plan adjusted. Some people have no control over the death wish that sweeps over them, yet they understand their impulse is irrational. They want people to intervene. If a chronically suicidal person lives alone, arrange for friends to check- in with the patient by phone every day. Ask for the phone number of their treatment doctor and which hospital accepts their insurance should a crisis occur.

If The Crisis is Acute: Treat it as an emergency. Call 911, a hot-line, or take the person to a crisis center, hospital emergency room, mental health center, their psychiatrist or family doctor.

Do Not leave The Person Alone.

You would intervene if someone were having a heart attack. The suicidal impulse is just as deadly.

There is no certain way to prevent suicide. The late Adina Wrobleski, founder of SA\VE warns us that the taboo against suicide is so strong, some people, even professionals may "...be reluctant to do the normal things a person should to help someone who is sick and in danger of dying." Be persistent in seeking help. That persistence by friends and family "...will eventually put pressure on doctors and mental health professionals to do better intervention, diagnosis and treatment."

"You can not control all the outcomes" was the best advice my counselor gave me as I struggled to save my son from suicide.

Danger Signs Of Suicide

Talking about suicide.
Statements about hopelessness, helplessness, or worthlessness.
Preoccupation with death.
Suddenly happier, calmer.
Loss of interest in things one cares about.
Visiting or calling people one cares about.
Making arrangements; setting one's affairs in order.
Giving things away.
A suicidal person urgently needs to see a doctor or psychiatrist.

Sucide Rate

If you are feeling suicidal right now, I beg you to please read this site, and reach out for help.

You are NOT alone. Please give us the few minutes it takes to read this, then please reach out for help!

Your life is valuable.
There are very few words... which can comfort
a severely suicidal person.
There are few who know the URGENCY...
the pulling, the tearing
the twisting, the turning
the moaning, the crying
the desperately dying
Few words could reach me
as I suffered the punishing torment
as the world of death pushed its way
into my heart and mind compelling me,
darkly drawing me to commit suicide
hurling me towards death and death towards me
I had hundreds of suicidal thoughts a day
and I did not expect to be alive
for the next week or month or even the next day.
But I found treatment & survived.
And you can too...

(from a suicidal woman, who found life again, healed the pain, and now helps others.)

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