It is a myth that most suicides occur during the winter holidays but according to scientific research by the National Institutes for Mental Health and the Suicide Prevention Center, most suicides occur during late July and August. Calls to suicide hotlines have increased by 70% since the recession began.
We don't know why but depressed people are more prone to taking their own lives this time of year. We may be less observant and miss certain warning signs from people during the summer months. This time of year we should try to be more observant of friends and family.
It is common for a person that is upset to occasionally have a thought "It would be better if I wasn't here," which is not necessarily a suicidal ideation. When those thoughts become consistent, or you create a plan of action, that is when you need to seek help either for yourself or loved ones.
Some people have thoughts of suicide for negative attention. People also hurt themselves for negative attention.
I use to work at a group home for troubled teens and it was very hard dealing with kids whom are suicidal everyday. Its definately not an easy task to help them through their problems. But once they realize that they do deserve to be in this world it is very rewarding to know that you had a part in their positive thinking. Negative attention seeking is not the best thing to do. Once you see someone that is doing something wrong or hurting themselves for attention you should encourage them to get help or get help for them. Suicide is not a game. It is a very serious matter. I think it would be great if we as humans, friends, family would never miss the warning signs but we are not perfect by any means. But I think if we are there for our loved ones whom are having issues or problems we could help them in ways we wouldn't know of. But can we really stop a person from wanting to end their life if they really wanted to do it?
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Recently I saw first hand some one who is very close to our family, try to commit suicide. In my opinion there are not always warning signs. I think some people may repress those thought out of a conscious mind and not even realize that it is a thought until something drastic happens to push those thoughts into a conscious mind. For example a a couple married for twenty two years, five kids, whom which everyone thought were "happy" one night the husband caught the wife red handed cheating on him with a friend, he goes to the shed with his gun. the only thing that stopped him was his oldest son showing up, unexpected his son didn't even know it was happening. It was not for the attention.So did he have thoughts of suicide in his Id before this event? Did seeing his son help repress these thoughts? Could those thought be there even though he thinks they are not? I personally do not think the thoughts were there before, I would say, weather he would like to believe it or not they are there now. If they are hopefully there will be signs.
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