Parasuicide

Hazards of School-induced Stress Depressed. Anxious. Fearful. Needy. These are all symptoms of students trapped in the vicious cycle, unable to escape school-induced stress. The responsibilities of completing schoolwork constantly consume students of all ages. School is stealing the rank as the number one priority for many teens. This may be seemingly positive, but it has negative effects overall. The stress of homework and the pressure to achieve outstanding grades is causing the good health and well-being of teens to deplete, which research and statistics regarding harmful health effects, common stressors, and negative learning and social effects have proven. While those commonly known for enduring frequent stress are adults, research finds that teenagers testify to feeling more stressed than adults do; school is the main root of a bulk of the reported stress. Teens were surveyed to find the main cause, and out of those surveyed, eighty-three percent of teens stated that school is “a somewhat or significant source of stress,” twenty-seven percent accounted to “extreme stress during the school year,” and ten percent said they considered stress “having a negative impact on their grades” (Shapiro). Another survey shows that fifty-six percent of youth said homework was the biggest contributor to stress, while less than one percent convey that homework was not a stressor at all (Levy). Researchers asked parents about their students’ stress levels in school as well. Around…

My mock suicide assessment was completed with Will Logan who played a character named Gary. Throughout the course of twenty minutes, I listened to Gary’s narrative and sought to ask questions which elicited information about his interactions with suicidal ideation and attempts. Gary came to treatment at the urging of a friend after two recent suicide attempts where he took pills in order to attempt to end his life. Through reflection, I hope to understand the strengths and areas for growth and…

Prevention and Intervention Recognition of risk factors and the cumulative affects of stress are essential in the early diagnosis and prevention of suicide. The following diagram outlines the process leading to either suicide or prevention. Figure 2. How does suicide occur? From: “Youth suicide: Epidemiology and prevention strategies” by M.S. Gould, 2012, Texas Suicide Prevention Symposium, p. 7 Prevention approaches for adolescent suicide have traditionally been conducted in three areas:…

A Review on the Epidemic of Adolescent Suicides Suicide is one of the most saddening topics to discuss. As a whole, suicide is awful. However, the population that I find the most concerning is adolescents. Sadly, suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents. With an influx of bullying and society’s ideals of perfection, there is no wonder how a depressed teen’s fixation on suicide is fed. In order to investigate the topic, I read three peer reviewed journals discussing teen…

Every 100 minutes a teen commits suicide, suicide is the the second leading cause of death in teens. Twenty percent of teens have gone through depression by the time they reach adulthood. This depression can be caused by bullying or not having friends. In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is a girl named Melinda who is going through depression because she called the cops on a party, lost all of her friends and is getting bullied for it. The theme in this book is…

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in US and each year approximately 42,773 Americans die by suicide with highest rates seen in white middle men. The annual age-adjusted suicide rate is approximately 12.93/100,000 and costs the US $ 44 Billion annually (AFSP). Even though the cause of suicidal behavior/ ideation could be multi-factorial, one of the most common risk factor is a psychiatric disorder (Lee and Kim, 2010) which has been further supported by a meta-analysis that showed…

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Just click any of these titles to be taken to the section you want or need Help Section 1. Self Harm Help Section 2. Suicide Help Section 3. Drugs _____________________________________________________________________________________________ || Self Harm || 1. What Is Self Harm? Self-harm is when somebody intentionally damages or injures their body. It's usually a way of coping with or expressing…

In Case Study 16 (Herlihy & Corey, 2015), a 17 year old male named Frank reveal to his counselor that he had the desire to commit suicide. His parents referred him to the counselor when they realized that things he once valued, he no longer cared about and his behavioral change concerned his parents. In Frank’s initial counseling session, he expressed his suicidal thoughts of: killing himself, giving up and planned to drive his car into an intersection of incoming traffic. His counselor provided…

In the event of a suicide, the surviving family members and loved ones can be left distraught and devastated. The act of suicide can be a planned or spontaneous event, which usually leaves many unanswered questions. Those left behind also known as survivors, experience many emotions and can sometimes lead to psychological trauma. Usually, when an individual passes away people normally demonstrate empathy, but when a person dies by means of suicide there is a sense of shame around the death and…

Suicide is argued to be a leading cause of death in the United States for several years. People on certain career paths are more susceptible to committing suicide and/or having suicidal ideation than others; law enforcement officers are members of one such group of people who are at high risk. There is an elevated rate of suicide among police officers, which is logical, as being a police officer is arguably one of the most dangerous jobs for one to have. This is said, as police officers’ lives…