Suicide Prevention

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Was there ever a time you had to do something you weren’t excited about. Although everyone told you it would be a great experience and you are going to learn so much! Even with the reassurance you pulled back unsure of what you would see. This past two weeks I have seen things I never dreamed would be a part of my job I had during college. A brief rundown of what I learned is to some people the Human life is priceless. While others see it as a burden weather that life be their own or the people that surround them daily. Even though the classes of Drug Addictions, Abuse, and Suicide prevention were all separate, by Friday they started to run together. The classes were all connected within some way.

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Drug use, Depression, loss of a friend or family member, or abuse from friends or family. Abuse come in many different ways sexual physical and emotional. On our first slide it was written “Suicide is among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years.” As seen this is not just a generation problem this is effect many generations at once. The suicide prevention training was emotional and hard for many. This training took you into dept. of your own story and many other how have taken this as a last resort. These two training were combined and made for one hard day of training. The abuse was mostly directed at care facilities and how staff abuse clients and the participates within the program. Although one slide showed how it can affect the people and lead them to take their own life. 35% of suicide steams from abuse. While being in the state ward school for the criminally insane the staff would stop at every door to say if the person was effected from abuse. We stopped at least every other door. When one of the fellow classmates asked if any had tried to commit suicide. The said some try daily while others have just given up on many things including life. I was dumbfounded I wondered if any had been affected by drug use. They said many had been in households with parents addicted to many substance and some born addicted. A staff that had been there 13 years said she wanted to show us one person that could make us see a lot of thing we have seen in training in one person. She took us down this long hall way to a dark room with toys. The boy was my age 18. We all couldn’t go in at once due to that being to overwhelming. We went in two at a time staying quite. He had cuts all over his arms and he was shaking rapidly. The staff stated they had received him about a month ago addicted to meth since birth. The reason he was in a dark room was because he had intermittent explosive disorder (Intermittent

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