"attempted suicide"... meaning..? (page 2)

MsMcDucket

A is a plan.

B is seriously thinking about carrying out the plan.

C is an attempt.

All are symptomatic enough to warrant treatment.

steve2

This gets even more complicated:

There are people who engage in deliberate acts of self-harm (cutting themselves for example) with no intent to kill themselves but who are viewed by others as being suicidal;

Then there are people who engage in self-harm acts not intending to seriously harm themselves or worse, but end up doing so (e.g., miscalculating how deeply they have cut or hitting an artery). Some even die and the main reason it is concluded as not suicidal is because they have a history of self-harm with no intent to die.

And, there are also people who swing between suicidal and self-harm behaviours. The key is the intent of the act.

MsMcDucket

S.A.D.

Self-assessments (e.g., Beck Suicide Scale):

Like risk factors, self-rating scale information is used to alert you to intent, deceit and estimates of probability.

SAD PERSONS (risk factors):

S ex, A ge, D epression ( especially with global insomnia, severe anhedonia, severe anxiety, agitation, and panic attacks ), P revious attempt, recent E thanol abuse, R ational thought loss, S ocial supports lacking, O rganized plan, N o spouse, S ickness.

Other Facts:

Diagnoses (especially major depression, bipolar illness and/or psychosis), available means/weapons, recent life-altering events (death, divorce, etc.), command hallucinations, religious preoccupation, persistent hostile environment, frightened friends and relatives.

2.

The Examination: A detailed interview determines imm

http://www.med.umich.edu/depression/suicide_assessment/Guide%20to%20Suicide%20Assessment.pdf

I'm still looking for the actual SAD person's tool/assessment.

mkr32208

I've never been "suicidal" however I have been HOMOCIDAL. My brother was once asked by a psychiatrist if he had every thought about killing himself to which he replied "hell no I like ME it's the other people who need to go!"

cognizant dissident

SAD PERSONS (risk factors): S ex, A ge, D epression ( especially with global insomnia, severe anhedonia, severe anxiety, agitation, and panic attacks ), P revious attempt, recent E thanol abuse, R ational thought loss, S ocial supports lacking, O rganized plan, N o spouse, S ickness.

Other Facts:
Diagnoses (especially major depression, bipolar illness and/or psychosis), available means/weapons, recent life-altering events (death, divorce, etc.), command hallucinations, religious preoccupation, persistent hostile environment, frightened friends and relatives.

Just another average day in my family!

Cog

crazyblondeb

My brother was once asked by a psychiatrist if he had every thought about killing himself to which he replied "hell no I like ME it's the other people who need to go!"

I feel like that everyday I go to work!

MsMcDucket

steve2

HOMOCIDAL.

Don't you mean HOMICIDAL? You're not alone in the misspelling: I've noticed an increasing tendency to refer to homicidal people as "homocidal". Spooky.

nelly136

some file trying to download in this thread was sending my puter into seizure spasms

had to block a site pd.health.mil/download summat or other... which is weird cos i cant see a link to that on anyones post but its in the page source.

Gordy

Mine is "C" in 1996.

Tried but survived.

Sectioned, spent 6 weeks in psychiatric hospital, had ECT treatment, then put on anti-depressants.

"attempted suicide"... meaning..?

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