Women Personality and Mental Health

One of the most famous suicide myths is that someone who has committed suicide was surely psychotic or had delusional beliefs about reality. The truth is, most of suicidal people suffer from the recognized mental illness of depression; but many depressed people adequately manage their daily affairs. A person who looks normal could suddenly and ‘inexplicably’ commit suicide, even if everyone around him or her said that “he looked just fine.”

Actually, suicidal people almost leave subtle signs days, weeks, or even months before the actual suicide occurs. If we can read these signs, it will be easier to give those people the help and support that they actually need.

These are some common warning signs of suicide:

1. Increased level of depression
In the young depression may be masked by hyperactivity or acting out behavior. In the elderly it may be incorrectly attributed to the natural effects of aging. Depression that seems to quickly disappear for no apparent reason is cause for concern. The early stages of recovery from depression can be a high risk period. Recent studies have associated anxiety disorders with increased risk for attempted suicide.

2. Emotional and behavioral changes
Overwhelming pain, results from longstanding problems initiated by recent painful events such as the death of family members or close friends, hopelessness, feeling of worthlessness or guilt, withdrawn personality and excessive anxiety or irritability are common emotional changes of suicidal people. Behavioral changes include declining interests in intimacy or friendship, declining performance at school or work, neglect of personal warfare, disobeying medical instructions, self-starvation, and/or alteration in sleeping or eating habits.

3. Suicidal behaviors
Suicidal people, whether they realize it or not, often show their intentions by commit suicidal behaviors or ‘mini-attempts.’ They include explicit statements of suicidal ideas or feelings, development suicidal plans such as ‘rehearsal’ behaviors and acquiring the means, have self-inflicted injuries such as burns or cuts, reckless behaviors, making out wills and giving away favorite possessions, inappropriately say goodbye, and verbal behaviors that are ambiguous such as “I’m going away on a real long trip.”, “You won’t have to worry about me anymore.”, “I want to go to sleep and never wake up.”, “I’m so depressed, I just can’t go on.”, “Does God punish suicides?”, “Voices are telling me to do bad things.”, inappropriate joking, stories or essays on morbid themes.