PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Suicidal Ideation, Asian Americans, Mental Disorder
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Suicide: the intenional, direct, and conscious taking of one"s own life, not classiied as a mental disorder, although the suicidal person usually has psychiatric symptoms, such as: Depression, alcohol dependence, and schizophrenia: suicide and suicidal ideaion (thoughts about suicide) may represent a separate clinical enity, thomas joiner. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for maine"s youth (15-24) Of every 5 suicides, 4 are males. Of every 100 atempts, 70 are female. Of every 10 suicides, 5 are by irearm, 4 by hanging. There are 25 atempted suicides for every death by suicide. College rate is of the rate for a matched sample. Occupaion: risk higher for physicians, lawyers, law enforcement personnel, and denists. Ethnic and cultural variables: highest rates in u. s. are for american indian, lowest for asian americans, high rates of alcoholism, low standard of living, and invalidaion of cultural lifestyles also contribuing factors. People who talk about suicide don"t die by suicide- true.
