Chapter 9 - Suicide

Question 1

What is Suicide?

Answer 1

Intentional death, self-inflicted in which one makes an intentional, direct and conscious effort to end one’s own life

Question 2

What is a death seeker?

Answer 2

Clearly intend to end their lives at the time they attempt suicide

Question 3

What is a death initiator?

Answer 3

Clearly intends to end their lives, but they act out of a belief that the process of death is already under way and that they are simply hastening the process

Question 4

What is a Death ignorer?

Answer 4

Do not believe that their self-inflicted death will mean the end of their existence

Question 5

What is a Death darer?

Answer 5

Experience mixed feelings, or ambivalence, about their intent to die, even at the moment of their attempt, and they show their ambivalence in the act itself.

Question 6

What is sub intentional deaths?

Answer 6

Category that includes Indirect, covert, partial or unconscious roles played in your own death are classified

Question 7

True or False, there is a correlation between regularly participation in dangerous acts and lathers of suicide?

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or false, self-injury or self-mutilation is officially classified as a mental disorder?

Answer 8

False

Question 9

What percentage of adolescents try to injure themselves at least once?

Answer 9

17%

Question 10

How is suicide studies?

Answer 10

Retrospective analysis, and studying people who have survived their suicide attempts

Question 11

What is retrospective analysis?

Answer 11

A kind of psychological autopsy in which clinicians and researchers piece together data from the suicide victim’s past

Question 12

How many nonfatal suicide attempts are there for every fatal suicide?

Answer 12

12

Question 13

How does stress trigger suicide?

Answer 13

More stressful events present in the lives of attempters. Immediate stressors and long term stressors. Social isolation, serious illness, abusive or repressive environment, and occupation stress

Question 14

What is combat stress?

Answer 14

Veterans from various wars are twice as likely to commit suicide

Question 15

What are immediate stressors?

Answer 15

Loss of a loved one through death, divorce/rejection, loss of a job, financial loss, stress caused by natural disasters.

Question 16

What are long-term stressors?

Answer 16

Social isolation, serious illness, abusive environments and occupational stress

Question 17

How does social isolation relate to suicide?

Answer 17

Those without social support are particularly vulnerable. Feel little sense of “belonging

Question 18

How does serious illness relate to suicide?

Answer 18

When an illness causes great pain of disability . Believe that death is unavoidable and imminent. Believe that the suffering caused by their illness is more than they can endure

Question 19

How does abusive or repressive environments relate to suicide?

Answer 19

Prisoners of war, abused spouses, Prison inmates. They feel that they can endure no more suffering, and feel there is little hope of escaping

Question 20

How does mood and though chance relate to suicide?

Answer 20

Most common change is an increase in sadness. Shift of pattern in thinking where they become preoccupied with problems and see suicide as the only solution

Question 21

What is the single most likely indicator of suicide?

Answer 21

Feelings of hopelessness, 11x more likely to attempt

Question 22

What is a psych ache?

Answer 22

A feeling of psychological pain that seems intolerable to the person

Question 23

What is dichotomous thinking?

Answer 23

Viewing problems and solutions as either/or terms

Question 24

How does alcohol and other drug use relate to suicide?

Answer 24

70% of people who attempt consume alcohol right before. The more intoxicated they are the more aggressive their form of suicide. 1/4 are legally intoxicated

Question 25

How does mental disorders relate to suicide?

Answer 25

Anxiety disorders only lead to suicide when they happen in conjunction with major depressive disorders