[Alffe]

1.The peak seasons for suicides are in early spring and early autumn.
In the US, suicides for both men and women peak in April & May, while suicides in women alone show a rise in Sept. & Oct.

2. One suicide can trigger other suicides. Like the flu, suicide can be contagious, encouraging copy cats.

3. More suicides occur between 4 AM and 7 AM, when depression is often at its worst.

4. More suicides occur on Monday.

5. Persons who experience mixed states - fluctuating between depression and mania or hypomania - are most at risk for suicide. (Again, because they have the energy, while a severely depressed person is too lethargic to end his life.)

6. Official statistics show that 30,000 Americans take their lives each year, but that number could be considerably higher since suicide often goes unreported; suicide takes more lives than traffic accidents, lung desease, or AIDS.

7. Worldwide there are more deaths due to suicide than to accidents, homicides, and war combined.

8. About 19 percent of youg people (high school and college students) contemplate or attempt suicide each year. suicide is the second-leading cause of death among people ages 15 to 24.

9. Approximately 6 percent of all people with major depression and about 15 percent of those treated for severe depression take their own lives.

10.The suicide rate among those with dibpolar disorder may be highest among all psychiatric conditions, with one in 10 persons ending their lives, and as high as one in five for those persons with bipolar disorder who have experienced depression severe enough to require hospitalization.

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[Alffe]

11. According to the Wold Health Organization, suicide is the second-leading cause of death woldwide among females ages 15 to 44, and the fourth-leading cause of death among males ages 15 to 44, after traffic accidents, TB, and violence.

12. Every day approximately 80 Americans take their own lives, and 1,500 more attempt to do so. A person dies by suicide every 18 minutes in the U.S. An attempt is estimated to be made once every minute.

13. There are more than four mail suicides for every female suicide, but twice as many females as males attempt suicide.

14. Firearms are the most frequent method of suicide among adults in the US.

15.Women most often overdose on pills to end their lives.

16. About two-thirds of the people who take their own lives suffer from maor depression or bipolar disorder. Almost everyone else has depression, alcohol or substance abuse, or a delusional illness like schizophrenia.

17. Alcoholism is a factor in about 30 percent of all suicide deaths.

18. Between 20 to 50 percent of people who kill themselves had previously attempted suicide. Although the majority of people who die by suicides have not made a previous attempt, a serious suicide attempt is a clear risk factor for suicide death.

19. In the year 2005 alone, at least 6,256 veterans committed suicide. According to a Veterans Affairs study published in October 2007 in the "American Journal of Public Health," Veterans took their lives at a rate of nearly 90 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2004.

20. Suicidal individuals often talk about suicide directly or indirectly using statements like, "My family would be better off without me." Sometimes they talk as if they are saying goodbye or going away, and may arrange to put their affairs in order. Other signs of contemplating suicide include giving away articles they value, paying off debt or changing a will.


this list of twenty was taken from an online counseling center saying feel free to use these as handouts.

[BlueMajo]

Very interesting Alffe, thank you ! and some points are so darn true... like the last one......................

[DMACK]

BlueMajo

with number 20 ringing a cord with you
quote' 20. Suicidal individuals often talk about suicide directly or indirectly using statements like, "My family would be better off without me." Sometimes they talk as if they are saying goodbye or going away, and may arrange to put their affairs in order. Other signs of contemplating suicide include giving away articles they value, paying off debt or changing a will.

can i point something out to you,

This family would not be better off without you,
Start every post with HELLO............End it with Until tomorrow.........
Give nothing you value away except LOVE......
The latter 2 are life skills.AND SHOULD BE OBSERVED...never get in debt........and arrange the latter to relieve burden on those left behind.........[ but not until you are 96

Life will change for you .......you just have to open your heart, and mind to the possible...................[ the impossible ...takes a little more concentration lol]


David

[BlueMajo]

Aw David !!!

Loved that !!! Thank you for writing that

And this "Life will change for you .......you just have to open your heart, and mind to the possible...................[ the impossible ...takes a little more concentration lol]" was my favourite part !!!!!!!!! Thank you so much.

Can I use that in my siggy ? with credits of course !

[DMACK]

with pleasure......go for it.............

David

[mistiis]

Oh geeezzzzz, and here I am thinking about giving special things away...LOL...but, I think I am old enough to do that, and I hope my motives are different, and that I am not just fooling myself.....

[Nik-key]

I have much I would like to add... I am just not able to right now.

I would like to add to number 2. One suicide can trigger other suicides.

Domino effect... A loved ones suicide, can trigger suicidal thoughts in the survivors left behind. The innocent who never dreamed of having these thoughts, now have so much pain, they can see no way to live with it.

To quote ((Alffe)) .. No legacy to leave your family.

Sigh*

[Nik-key]

((Mistiis)) Keep swimming my friend Love you

[doxiemama]

Mistiis and Nikki, I think about both of you often. Remember good friends can be life preservers and can help you keep swimming and help you find safe ground. Love to you both and plenty of hugs and doxie kisses.