alert!When these performances appear, your loved ones/friends are considering suicide seriously

September 10th is the World Prevention Day. Today, I will talk to you about the heavy topic of "suicide".

Patients with mental illness are high -risk groups of suicide. Depression, bilateral emotional disorders, alcohol abuse and dependence, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and severe anxiety disorders are more likely to have light thoughts.

However, many family members have a misunderstanding of "suicide", so that they will be missed by the opportunity to rescue the good opportunity, and they will always live in the pain of mourning and unable to extricate themselves.

The day before yesterday, I heard a friend telling a very sad story: his colleague Xiao A was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After 2 months of hospitalization, the condition has improved greatly, his mood is relatively stable, the words and deeds are normal, and the words and deeds are normal. Essence

What is unexpected is that on the third day after his mother went to the hospital to visit, Xiao A chose to commit suicide in the wall. Xiao A's mother regretted her negligence and washed her face with tears every day.

alert! The disease recovery period is the high -risk period of suicide

The suicide ideas/behavior of mental patients will not only appear in the attack period of the disease. There is also a high risk of suicide during the relief period of the disease, and the success rate of suicide is often higher than those of the attack period.

1. The study of suicide risks of a national mental illness patients in the UK showed that 1/4 of suicide occurred within 3 months after discharge. Nearly half of the patients died of suicide within the first month after their follow -up.

2. A observation study in Sweden showed that about 1/5 of the schizophrenia or two -phase disorders died of suicide within the first year after discharge.

Maybe many family members don't understand: after the condition has improved, the patient still chooses a hundred?

Experts have found that these patients often have the following three psychology:

First, because of the lack of understanding of mental illness, patients treat themselves as a shame as a kind of illness, thinking that they are low, and worry about others to see another look, so that they have thought of light.

Second, the self -awareness of patients in the rehabilitation period will recover more. They will blame and guilt because of their behavior when they are onset.

A friend said that Xiao A's father died of illness during his hospitalization. When his mother saw that his condition improved, he told him. As a result, Xiao A remembered that he had insulted and cursed his father when he became ill. He thought he had killed his father and lived in the world without face, so he committed suicide while the medical staff did not pay attention to the wall.

3. Patients with rehabilitation period are eager to get the care, comfort and understanding of their families, especially in resident patients, but some patients 'condition will repeat the condition. The family members have lost their confidence and neglected patients' care, so that the patient has a sense of abandonment because he does not want to be someone else. The burden became the idea of ​​light.

The above three common reasons may allow patients in the rehabilitation period, but this is not an inevitable event, because their suicide behavior is not all of them suddenly and unpredictable.

To prevent suicide, read these suicide "signals"

Although mental patients often have the idea of ​​life, they do not really want to die, they just want to get rid of the pain. Therefore, before suicide, they will struggle on the edge of life and death, and they will suffer and contradict.

Even so, patients will not take the initiative to ask their family or friends for help, but the instinct of survival makes them want to get the sympathy, understanding and support of others. Therefore, about 60%to 80%of patients will release obvious signals before suicide. We can find and help in time to save their lives.

When patients have changed the above changes, especially patients with many or highly fatal suicide in the past, patients who have suddenly improved their emotions, patients who continue to drink, and patients with sleep disorders must attract attention.

Four methods can dispel the thought of suicide in patients

When you find that relatives and friends release suicide signals, we can try the following 4 methods to dispel their thoughts.

1. Take the initiative, don't escape

In order to avoid stimulating patients, many family members choose to avoid "suicide", but in fact, you do not mention that this idea will not appear in their minds, and ask if they have the idea of ​​suicide, it is not This will lead to the increase in the risk of suicide by patients, which has been confirmed by many studies.

Therefore, when we find that the patient has a light life, we cannot avoid it. You can ask TA in this way: When you feel painful and desperate, have you thought about ending your life?

In the process of communication, the patient's bad emotions can be released, and you can better understand his feelings, ideas, and whether there is a suicide plan, etc. This can save lives at a critical moment.

2. Actively listen and avoid criticism

When I hear that patients do n’t want to live, some family members often say “who do you do so?”, “What is such a bumpy?”, “How is it not easy for your parents to raise you so much” ... ...

Xiaobian knows that your original intention is to tell patients that you love him very much, and want to correct his negative ideas, but if you do this, it may make him feel that he is not understood and accepted, but it will be counterproductive.

Therefore, if you want to dispel the thought of the patient, we cannot blindly criticize his thoughts or emphasize the effort to him, to show an attitude of understanding and acceptance, listen patiently, or express our concerns and care sincerely, or even You can share his painful experience with him, making him feel that he is not alone.

3. Discover happiness, rebuild hope

If you want to help the desperate people rekindle the hope, we can guide them to discover the valuable things they have, such as their unique advantages, the enviable affection, friendship, etc., which can make the patient feel warm and give up the idea of ​​light. In addition, we have to let them see more possibilities and know that "death is not the only way to get rid of pain. Only by living can it be better."

Remember the story of the Internet celebrity painter Kate shared by Xiaobian last week (can you click on the blue word to view)?

After she suffered from schizophrenia, she was often tortured by fantasy vision, but since she used painting to express her fear, she not only became an Internet celebrity writer, but also increased with the number of paintings. There is less and less time to be tortured by hallucinations.

Many real patient stories have also been released on the public account of the good mood. There are many cases of "successful defeating mental illness". You can share it with patients and let them know that patients with mental illness can also have a wonderful life.

4. Seek help and avoid tragedy

If you find that patients have frequently expressed suicide ideas for more than 2 weeks, or serious suicide early warning signals, such as formulating plans or finding suicide methods, then you should seek professional help from the doctor in time.

Doctors will use psychotherapy, drug treatment, electric shock treatment and other methods to reduce the probability of patient suicide. So what is the specific effect?

A queue study showed that 38 % of patients could eliminate the concept of suicide after 3 electric shock treatment, and this ratio rose to 62 % after 6 treatment.

In addition, the latest studies have shown that compared with patients who have not accepted cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) group, patients who have received CBT treatment can be reduced by 50 % of the risk of suicide again.

All of the above methods can effectively dispel the thought of patients' light birth. As family members, we must understand and learn more about this to avoid tragedy.

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