CLP-3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Baseball Park, Suicide Prevention, Serotonergic
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Suicidal people are made they are not born that way. we can prevent them from committing suicide. Norm farburo opened the first crisis line in the us for suicidal people. Learning objectives: list suicide warning signs and risk factors, explain barriers to the assessment of suicide risks, suicide prevention strategies. Suicidal ideation- thoughts of engaging in suicide-related behavior. Suicide attempt- non-fatal potentially injurious behavior with any intent to die. Each year, 40,000 american die by suicide, more people that fill the seats at fenway baseball park. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death. On average 121 die a suicide every day. Men die by suicide 3x more often than women. Middle-aged white males are a particularly high risk group. Talk- being a burden, feeling trapped, unbearable pain, no reason to live, killing themselves, Behavior- increase alcohol/ drugs, looking means, reckless, withdrawal/ isolation, sleep problems, giving away possessions, aggression. Mood-depression, loss of interest, rage, irritability, humiliation, anxiety/ agitation,
