Signs of Suicidal Behavior
When you are concerned about a loved one with depression or odd behavior, you need to recognize the potential signs of suicidal behavior. Suicide impacts the whole family and the friends of the person involved, not just the individual. By recognizing the signs, you can get appropriate help to manage the situation before it gets out of control or your loved one takes action on suicidal thoughts.
Depression and Mood Changes
A possible sign of suicidal behavior is the extreme depression that is often followed by changes to mood. In many cases, feelings of sadness, loneliness or despair are the trigger that leads to suicidal behavior and attempted suicide. When you notice that a loved one sinks further into depression or is experiencing sudden changes to his or her moods, it might be time to get help.
Sadness is a normal emotion, but depression that extends for long periods of time needs help to get under control. Severe depression and hopelessness is a sign that an individual might become suicidal, particularly if the sadness does not have any obvious reason.
Self-Destructive Behavior
If you notice that a loved one has started behaving recklessly or in a way that might lead to permanent harm, then it is time to seek help. Self-destructive behavior, such as cutting different areas of the body or taking unnecessary risks to personal health, is a sign of suicidal thoughts. This type of behavior requires help because it can lead to serious injuries or accidentally hurting others.
Trauma
Although trauma does not always lead to suicidal thoughts, it can act as a trigger for the destructive behaviors. Trauma can take many forms, such as an attack or the death of a loved one. When your loved one has experienced a trauma and seems to become depressed from the experience, getting help to deal with the trauma is the best way to handle the situation.
Suicidal behavior is triggered by several possible situations, but it often has similar feelings of hopelessness attached to the thought processes. Although signs of the problem are not always easy to recognize, it is possible to prevent a suicide if you know what to look for in your loved one’s behavior.
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what is the best way of suicide. which looks like a natural death or heart attack?
Let it happen naturally, drive a motorcycle and let yourself free and feel free. Then may come a night where it happens naturally. Pray for a sickness. Have you heard The Antlers -Hospice full album..great GREAT stuff, You don’t want to live your life,get the crap out of the one your living and start over somewhere else making others lives worth living, which will make you feel worth living. Best of love pal, love ya
i dont know how to ask for help, i have bee having suicidel thoughts and have been close a few times. how do or who do i ask for help. any info would be apprecited.
hey, you can talk to me, I’d love to help… I am at morenomari1@yahoo.com… talk to people who care in your life, and who will actually do something and make you feel saved and better.
Im not into violence whether it be against others or myself. I don’t like the idea of it. I wish I could just go to sleep tonight and never wake up again..just die peacefully and painlessly in my sleep. This world is a huge pile of shit and the people running things such as politicians, the puppet masters of the politicians, lobbyists, banksters, wall street scum, crooked lawyers ect are all vile, evil, greedy pieces of filth. I just wish I could leave this world tonight and go to a better place. I’m homeless, and the very few employment ‘opportunities’ available to me aren’t going to get me out of it. I basically have no family anymore, no true friends, and I don’t want to be here anymore. Life is like torture to me, it’s the best way to describe it. And my job that barely pays for food and gas for the car I sleep in is depressing me to the point where I have lost all hope and cannot stand humanity. God, if you are real and if you really do love us all, take me tonight..I want to die but I am not violent enough to kill myself.
I have spent the past 30 years trying to find a reason to live. (I”m 33). Either I’m the unluckiest person alive, I was an evil, slave owning bureaucrat in a past life, or just really bad at living. My only addiction is cigarettes, and I still can’t get my shit together. Either no one will hire me, or they don’t want to pay me when they do. I’m homeless (have been off and on since i was 4) and have decided if I’m not capable of taking care of myself, I need to take the burden off my loved ones and die.
I can’t afford health let alone life insurance, and I don’t want to hurt my family financially or emotionally. Any advice on how to ensure they can’t identify my body? Something that doesn’t cost money, as my curse is that I can’t get any. I’d shoot myself, but can’t afford a gun. I live in a constant state of guilt and anxiety and with the lifespans in my family, without suicide, I’ll have another 47 pathetic years of this shit. I can’t do it.