Soni Schilz
Causal Analysis Suicide is a primary communal health matter. It is the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States and the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34.(CDC, 2017) Every day more and more people are taking their own lives. Suicide is a national problem caused by three main categories; biopsychosocial, environmental, and sociocultural. Biopsychosocial causes account for most suicides and suicide attempts. These causes include mental health disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. About 90 percent of the people who commit suicide have a mental illness at the time of their death. Mental health can affect people
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Depression can be described as an emotional state that can have feelings that range from mild sadness to total hopelessness. Anxiety disorders are also rising in numbers every day. In a world where everything moves so quickly and there is a demand for perfection it has become a superb environment to feed anxiety. Bipolar and schizophrenia are also players in the suicidal ring. They are mind altering disorder and when in a bipolar or schizophrenia episode, it is difficult to make decisions; especially when those decisions can be fatal. There are additional biopsychological causes that should be discussed too. They include substance abuse, family history of suicide or previous suicide attempts. Substance abuse,whether it is alcohol or other drugs, will be negative to a productive life. It can be especially dangerous when it is combined with other factors such as an underlying mental disorder. Alcohol and drugs are mood altering substances. Whether it be a stimulant or depressant, there is a point of coming down from that state, that a person either has to feed the need again or suffer the withdraw. Both options leave your mind in an unclear state to make proper decisions. According to the research team, led by Dr. David …show more content…
These include, but aren’t limited to, a social loss, access to lethal means, being exposed to suicide or being a victim of bullying. As mentioned above, being exposed to suicide, which is sometimes referred to as suicide contagion, increases the likelihood of suicide attempt. There is some controversy that suicide is “contagious” and this suggestion has always been disputable. Another environmental cause is access to lethal means, including firearms and drugs. Although there are laws and measures required to be able to purchase or own a firearm, there are many cases where individuals have access to them via friend or family members. It is important to always use safety precautions as an owner of a firearm such as locking them up to prevent accidental access. Suicide attempts by drug overdose are an expanding healthcare problem, now reaching widespread proportions. These drug overdoses are by means of both prescription and illegal drugs. When in desperation people do not look into the possible effects of a failed suicide attempt, they are just desperate to make the pain stop however they can. Since drugs are easily obtainable this route is near the tops of the list for suicide attempts, especially in the elderly who usually have access to several prescription medications. It is no surprise that there is an epidemic of bullying in today’s
Teen suicide can result from a number of scenarios. When you hear of teens who commit suicide, a lot of people would think it's due to the most common cases which are unhappiness or depression. But in fact, there are different factors to what causes suicide. For an example, as stated in the article Teen Suicide from Kids Health, teens attempt suicide for multiple reasons. These reasons revolve around psychological problems such as anxiety, bipolar disorders, or drug abuse or even dealing with bisexuality or homosexuality in an unsupportive family or hostile school environment. The individuals who usually face th...
The natural end of every human life is death. Some people, for reasons that have never been fully understood, choose to end their own lives. This is called suicide, which means literally ?self-killing?. For all the uncertainty that has surrounded the phenomenon of suicide, this assessment of the problem is probably as accurate as any. The individual seemingly hopeless conflict with the world, decides to end his or her existence in what amounts to a final assault against a society that can no longer be tolerated. In so doing, the person tries to obtain a final revenge on everything and everyone that has caused their feelings of depression.
There are many risk factors associated with suicidal ideation and attempts. Risk factors include self-destructive behavior which may be related to life events, unfavourable home environments, or a genetic component. Personality traits like aggression and hostility or feeling introverted or hopeless play a role in suicides. Loss of control, poor problem solving techniques, or rigid cognitive life styles are also characteristics of suicides. Similar traits are found in depressive behaviors. Teenagers may have been exposed to others who have had suicidal behaviors.
Suicide is arguably one of the most major controversies. Suicide is the act of taking one’s own life as a result of a psychiatric disorder that sometimes is brought on with certain life threatening illnesses, stress, genetics, or other influences like physical or emotional abuse. There are many conditions that are known for having suicidal thoughts and ideation as a side effect; major depression, manic depression, or bipolar disorder, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and many more. Most suicidal individuals want to avoid emotional or physical pain by killing themselves to escape the pain they can’t bear and solve their insoluble problem. Sometimes, suicide is also done out of anger. Suicide may not be the answer to their problems, but sometimes suicide is the only way to escape.
Suicide is the eleventh most common cause of death in the United States. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a person takes their own life once every fourteen minutes in the United States (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP], 2011). Still, with suicide rates so high, suicide is a taboo topic in our society. Though suicide is intended to end one person’s pain, it causes an immeasurable amount of pain and suffering to loved ones close to the deceased.
Suicide however is typically caused by more than just depression. Many things increase one’s risk for suicide, including substance abuse, past attempts, the severity of depression symptoms, and bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder highly influences suicide, as it frequently goes unnoticed for a very long time, and can be mistaken for general depression and irritability. In 2006, Williams had an interview with Terry Gross from Fresh Air in which he said he had depressive and manic episodes, but had never been diagnosed with clinical depression or bipolar disorder.
Suicide is when someone takes their own life. There are various reasons why someone might end their own life. Most of the time depression has a significant impact towards suicide. For the 2020 measurement, the value we are working toward is to reduce the rate of suicidal deaths. The baseline measurement is 11.3 suicides per 100,000 population occurred in 2007. The target is to bring suicide rates to 10.2 suicides per 100,000 population. The target- setting method is a 10 percent improvement on suicidal deaths. The data that is measured is measured by the numerator representing the number of deaths due to suicide and the denominator representing the number of people per
Before elaborating on what causes suicide it should be understood what we mean by cause. The Oxford English Dictionary defines cause as “a person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon or condition.” This essay will in part examine the methods employed by suicidal patients though this is secondary to whatever caused them to make this decision. The essay will consider the epidemiology of suicide (also regarding suicide clustering) followed by the potential genetic risk factors. This will be followed by the psychological factors such as depressive disorders, and finally the environmental risk factors such as low socioeconomic status and substance abuse.
Depression has a high rate of co-occurrence with both anxiety (up to 60%) and substance use disorders. 25 million Americans suffer from depression each year. Over 50 percent of all people who die by suicide suffer from major depression. Depression is one of the main causes of suicide or suicidal thoughts and one of the things that triggers depression is not getting enough sleep. However, schools still start too early knowing these devastating, both mental and physical risks exist.
These are often complex and involve a range of different factors. Difficulty in relationships, as in the Social Model, is a common reason. Repeated conflict and difficult family systems often lead to mental illness. Events that effect a young persons independence, identity and autonomy can have an impact on a young person. “Fleming et al(2007) found that knowing someone who has attempted suicide. Having symptoms of depression, alcohol misuse, and lesbian, gay and transgender relationships were associated with an increased risk of suicide.” (Claveirole and Gaughan, 2011). A young person is often more vulnerable to suicide if they suffer from depression, low self-esteem, and hopelessness. Often those who abuse substances; are aggressive; have risky sexual behaviour; and suffer from health problems have a higher rate in mental illness. Having a relative with a mental illness creates a risk for a person to develop mental health problems. Stressful situations can lead to illness, for example, financial problems, a loved ones death or divorce. Brain injuries and abuse as a child are also risk factors. Lack of friends or if a person has had a mental illness in the past means that a person is more
Committing suicide probably sounds like a foreign idea to most people, but to the people who think about it, they deal with it every day. More importantly, the question is what leads people to kill themselves? In general, most people do not want to actually kill themselves, even though many people joke about it on a daily basis. Being a human, we all have a certain amount of will to live. Depression is the major cause for suicidal thoughts and ideas. After a long enough period of time, people become worn down and become less and less happy.
In 1996, suicide was the second-leading cause of death among college students, the third-leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 24 years, and the fourth- leading cause of death among those aged 10 to 14 years.
“Studies show that untreated depression is the number one cause of teen suicide. Depression is an illness that affects twelve percent of teens. More than 60 percent of all people who kill themselves have major depression.” (Rohdart). There is no reason to not think depression is one of the top reasons why people take their life. “The pain of existence often becomes too much for severely depressed people to bare. A lot has been learned about suicide just from reading suicidal experience from the victims’ stories including: notes, diaries, and autopsies.” (Vorvick). Many go on with their life blaming their self for what happened to their loved one that has chosen suicide could have done something more to help. They may also keep themselves from creating any new relationships due to the excruciating pain they have experienced through a life take by suicide. Deaths that involve a mixture of things including hanging, overdosing, slashing, jumping show a big desire to die. “Repeatedly, it has been found that when a person is prevented from completing suicide, he or she is extremely grateful later. With rare exception, a suicidal person is ambivalent about dying. Often, if the pain can be reduced only slightly, the person will want to live and can proceed to have a rich and rewarding life.” (Portner) Anyone and everyone can be
Suicide has become a critical, national problem and the extent of this is mind-boggling. Suicides have been proven to be one of the leading causes of death among college students. According to Webters dictionary “suicide is the act killing oneself on purpose”. It derived from the Latin sui, meaning “self”, and caedere, which means “to kill”. But this is just a definition, because an actual suicide holds different meanings to people such as tragic, shocking, a relief, a cry for help, a shame, heroic, the right choice, punishment, revenge, protest, anger, a mistake, desperate, hurtful and many more. But why do people, like college students who have their entire future ahead of them, simply give up hope and turn their heads away from life and commit suicide. There are several causes of suicide, recent incidents of suicide on college campuses, warning signs from a suicidal. I blame the Constitution and the United States law for not taking any hard initiative on the subject of suicide. I also impose the choice of the media, which is reflecting and portraying suicide towards a wrong direction. However most important questions remain: can the growing epidemic of suicide be solved, what are communities doing about it and what can they do to help?
Suicide is one of the most common death around the world. Life is just taking away very easy by someone or yourself. We have study the causes of someone killing themselves, but our human behavior can easy change and eventually make that deciduous. The causes and effects of suicide are depression, the past meaning your life before, and feeling unloved or lonely. The effects are the people that loved you are going to be depress, never reach those goals that you set for yourself, and people that loved you will feel the guilt.