Suicide

Feeling, Thoughts and Behaviors
 

• Can’t stop the pain
• Can’t think clearly
• Can’t make decisions
• Can’t see any way out
• Can’t sleep, eat or work
• Can’t get out of depression
• Can’t make the sadness go away
• Can’t see a future without pain
• Can’t see themselves as worthwhile
• Can’t get someone’s attention
• Can’t seem to get control

From the American Association of Suicidology.
 

Depression often plays a significant role in suicide and can be indicated by:

• Difficulty concentrating or remembering, indecisiveness
• Loss of interest in or enjoyment of usually pleasurable activities
• Loss of energy, fatigue, slowed speech and muscle movement
• Decreased productivity, poor performance
• Expressed feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness, or low self-esteem
• Change in sleep habits to too little or a desire to sleep all the time
• Pessimism about the future, negative thoughts about the past
• No apparent pleasure in response to praise or rewards
• Tearfulness or crying
• Change in appetite, unwanted weight loss or weight gain
• Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
• Decreased sex drive

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