PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tunxis Community College, Suicidal Ideation, Altruistic Suicide
8 Dec 2020
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Passive suicidal ideation: the majority of people will have this thought in their lifetime. Active suicidal ideation: i am going to do this and this is how. Self-harm: individuals hurt themselves because they are in distress or are losing control of their life and need something to stabilize them. 800,000 people die from suicide every year. ***around 6% of undergrads seriously contemplate suicide. Women tend to have more severe and recurrent depressive episodes. Men complete more tend to use more lethal methods (guns, hanging) Believe they aren"t very integrated into social media so not a lot of people would miss them. Refers to a situation in which individuals are having problems adapting to a certain disruption in their social life. A person commits suicide to benefit society or others. When another soldier sacrifices themselves for the rest of around them their unit. Bd is characterized by daily mood swings. People with bd are ill all the time.
