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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Suicide an aggressive tendencies of taking one's life is becoming so pupular in human culture!

Taking one's life is now common in most of the societies around the world. People are taking their life for a range of different reasons thus social,national patriotism,religious ,substance abuse or economical background causes.
In about 45 years ago suicide increased by 40% and over one million people commit suicide. At every 40 seconds atleast one person is commiting suicide. However suicidal attempts are up to 20 times more frequent than completed suicides. Worldwide suicide rates are officially 16 people per 100 people and is the third leading death among the average age range of 24 years old people. Now suicide is also the major leading cause of deaths among the age range from 15-44 years old people.
Suicide generally can be defined as taking one's life due to the reasons like: Unemployment when someone decided to take life to death get out from maladies of life due to absent of a source of income for decent living . Some substances can be abused such that it can affect someone's mental health and seek to rest by causing self death. Social disputes especially in marriages caused one of the couples to rest to death sleep. And some religious,national ideaologies may nacessitate suicides ,according to Kolberg 's stage six of moral development one can take his/her own life for the good of the nation or belief than for the whole organisation to suffer instead of only an individual to volunteer it for the good of many people hence should decided to die for the cause. The causes of suicide are many ,take for example the suicides done by Africans who cross the aggressive seas in hand driven boats to Spain or Yemen seeking employment or terrorism incidents of one blasting self in the targeted scene to die with many people for one reason or the other.
When commiting suicide people can hang themeselves using trees and ropes, drinking poisonous chemicals, piecing themselves on the neck,stomarch or other dangerous body parts using a sharp knife, shoot themselves with a gun ,causing vehicle accidents , drown themselves in water, burn themselves using flamable fuels ,patrol bombed themselves in their houses , among other self dangerous use of different devices and methods.
Suicidal behaviour has enormous psychological and economical impacts on people in general. Some survivors especially those who had lost someone through suicide or attempted suicide are at more risk to develop suicidal tendencies.
According to the medical researches 90% of the suicidal people safer from psychatric illness especially depressant . Recognising this especially psychatric depression is treatable.
Therefore suicide can be preventable.
There is a relationship between suicidal behaviours and HIV&AIDS pandemic rising suicides rates in Southern Africa. This is because HIV&AIDS often generates related psychatric and neuro-psychatric disorders.
A condition which include depression and anxiety. This thereafter leads to suicide.
Caregivers should be able to assess the suicide risk of their patients inorder to use proper intervention strategies.
Depression the most dangerous risk factor for sucidal behaviours affect 25% of those with chronic illness including HIV&AIDS. Depressive symptoms are common among HIV&AIDS patients which manifested by a feeling of healthlessness and hopelessness which is common among suicidal people.
Risk factors of suicide are psychatric illness ,excessive anger,divorce ,being HIV positive ,unwanted pregnancies and many others.
All this need to be treated in combination with other risk factors.

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