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Understand when depression becomes fatal

Understand when depression becomes fatal

Suicide and depression are very related. But it is very important to note that not all people who have a depressive disorder are at risk of committing suicide. The tendency to take one's life is related to some factors, the most important of which are the following:

  • The severity of the depressive picture: in severe depressive disorders, the suicide attempt is much higher
  • The use of alcohol and drugs: which can cause depressive states after use and are extremely serious, since they potentiate existing depressive states
  • Personal existential situations with a sum of factors: age, presence of a chronic or terminal illness, hopelessness
  • Presence of psychological traumas such as child sexual abuse.

How to realize that a person with depression may be close to suicide?

Usually the person sends a series of signals through behavior, but they are not always perceived or not taken seriously. Anyone who has a very severe worsening of a depressive condition, to the point of no longer wanting to live (even if he does not mention killing himself), is a potential candidate for suicide. If in this situation speaking that he wants to die must be taken seriously, for many who threaten suicide really make the attempt, sometimes not for the sake of killing themselves properly, but simply because they are tired of living.

Depression is an illness multicausal and quite complex. There are a number of factors that can aggravate it to the point of leading a person to take his own life:

  • Difficulty or refusal to seek help or treatment: the disease progressively evolves, leading the individual to a total lack of energy. "Eros" is overcome by "tanahos", in the sense of Freud, or in simpler language, the impulse that drives us to life is overcome by the impulse that drives us to death.
  • Organic diseases: Parkinson's, some rheumatic diseases , some types of tumors, among other diseases, can produce a very intense depressive state as physical and psychic consequences.
  • Very intense loss situations, which produce a true rupture of the individual's values. It is as if he loses (or loses) everything that means or gives meaning to his life. Not having other values ​​to continue living, take your life.

Other Psychiatric Problems Linked to Suicide

As already mentioned, we can find suicide in psychoses. In these diseases may occur changes in the perception of reality or hallucinations. The person can hear voices that can order the person to kill himself or commit some atrocity. It is common in forms of schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis.

We also find suicide and suicide attempts in personality disorders, especially those of the Borderline type.

We still find suicide in the pre-dementia and dementia diseases, usually associated to changes in the state of consciousness - the so-called "cryptomnesias" - for a few moments the person regains lucidity, perceives his or her dementia and can not live with it.

Suicide can still be found in cases of bipolar disorder, in the depressive phases of the disease.

We can not forget traumatic situations, especially in childhood, such as child violence, especially in cases of sexual violence with the child with a high suicide rate. physical and drug use are certainly also factors are very important. Some people are less tolerant of suffering and can not cope with the idea of ​​a chronic or disabling illness, for example; before pain and possible chronic suffering opt for the radical solution.

Drug use is one of the factors that is most strongly associated with suicides, and there are several reasons for this:

Change in consciousness due to drug effect and presence of hallucinatory hallucinations and hallucinatory ideas

  • Post-use deep depression of the drug
  • Overdoses of the drug
  • Immune system, organic and brain damage, causing damage in self-determination and self-management: slow and agonizing suicide through cirrhosis, organic lesions in various organs of the body of brain lesions
  • Drug-induced psychosis: a state of madness produced by drugs that can lead to suicide
  • Feeling guilty and powerless for not being able to overcome addiction.

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