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Explains what suicidal feelings are, and what you can do if you feel suicidal. Also covers the causes, treatments and support options for suicidal feelings. If you feel unable to keep yourself safe, it's a mental health emergency. Get emergency advice.
- Causes of Suicidal Feelings
Can medication cause suicidal feelings? Some medications,...
- Treatment and Support
If you experience suicidal feelings while taking psychiatric...
- Helping Yourself Now
Like all feelings, these ones will pass. There are steps you...
- Useful Contacts
Note: Please don’t include personal details like your name...
- Helping Yourself Long Term
This may be helpful to read when you are experiencing...
- Causes of Suicidal Feelings
Feelings of hopelessness. Features that suggest suicidal intent. Always ask people directly about suicidal ideation and intent. Consider the history and frequency of any past self-harm, medical seriousness, use of violent methods, evidence of planning such as suicide notes or changes to will, and precautions taken to prevent rescue.
Explains what suicidal feelings are, and what you can do if you feel suicidal. Also covers the causes, treatments and support options for suicidal feelings. If you require this information in Word document format for compatibility with screen readers, please email: publications@mind.org.uk.
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Apr 26, 2021 · What we found is that suicidal thinking, suicidal behaviours and risk for suicide isn't a slow increase to a peak and then a slow decrease; over just a matter of hours we see a very fast movement between high suicidal thinking and low suicidal thinking.
The tools ask questions about people’s mental health and may include statements and questions on suicidal feelings and thoughts of self- harm. Answering these questions may be upsetting or triggering.
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Clinical Guide: Assessment of suicide risk in people with depression 4 Explaining suicide Suicide can result from a range of factors, including, for example, psychiatric disorder, negative life events, psychological factors, alcohol and drug misuse, family history of suicide, physical illness, exposure to suicidal behaviour of others, and
Jun 1, 2022 · Psychologists often use one of two screening instruments to assess suicidality: the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions tool or the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (PDF, 181KB).
