Awareness Reframe assumptions: Myths & Facts about ‘Suicide’

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Volume 6 Issue 9 September, 2016

❌Mental Illnesses are the cause for suicide

✅Though mental illnesses are a major factor for suicide, it is not always associated with mental illness nor is suicide a mental illness by itself.

❌If a person often threatens to commit suicide for trivial problems, it can be safely ignored

✅Any communication regarding suicide, in whatever form, should never be ignored but assessed appropriately

❌A person who is scared of dying will not commit suicide

✅There is no evidence for this statement but in fact this may be risk factor by itself for a suicidal attempt

❌Talking openly about suicide with patients may stimulate them to commit the same

✅Discussing about suicidal ideations actually helps in better understanding of patient’s problems and also helps in preventing the same

❌Advising not to commit suicide and telling about the moral values and consequences would make patients revise their decisions to kill oneself

✅Helping patient to cope with the problem is the key rather than over-enthusiastic and premature advices or lectures during counseling. In fact this is better avoided as it may not be prudent but rather worsen the scenario.

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