Suicide
Suicidology is the scientific study of suicide and the components of suicide, including suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, suicide epidemiology, and suicide prevention. It also encompasses the study of non-suicidal self-injury and other forms of self-destructive behavior (including eating disorders, which have been reported to be significantly associated with suicide attempts).[1] According to the WHO, more than 720,000 people die by suicide every year.[2] The United States has assumed $93.5 billion in total costs of suicidal behavior.[3]
Discussion questions
[edit | edit source]- What are the reasons that individuals engage in suicide? How can these reasons be reduced or mitigated so as to lower rates of suicide?
- Why does a person in a particular situation want to take his or her own life, while another person in the same situation would react in a different way and perhaps seek help?[3]
- How can rates of suicide be lowered?
- Does psychiatric coercion worsen problems of suicide?
- How do most people who possess certain variables that are highly associated with suicide, such as hopelessness, burdensomeness, and emotional pain, not commit suicide? What differentiates them from those who possess these variables and end up attempting/committing suicide?[4]
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References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Pisetsky, Emily M.; Thornton, Laura M.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Bulik, Cynthia M. (2013-11). "Suicide attempts in women with eating disorders". Journal of Abnormal Psychology 122 (4): 1042–1056. doi:10.1037/a0034902. ISSN 1939-1846. PMID 24364606. PMC 8023043. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8023043/.
- ↑ "Suicide". www.who.int. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Heeringen, Kees van (2018). The neuroscience of suicidal behavior. Cambridge fundamentals of neuroscience in psychology. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-14894-9.
- ↑ Joiner, Thomas (2009). Why People Die by Suicide. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02549-3.