Depression & Suicide Prevention
Published on Feb 03, 2016
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Depression & Suicide Prevention
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Real Facts
WHO - reports #1 cause of illness and disability
Mortality figures come American Association of Suicidology based on the CDC published report from 1/2015
Mortality figures come American Association of Suicidology based on the CDC published report from 1/2015
Thoughts & Feelings
What to look for?
How to help?
WE are doing the first step and that is breaking the silence and learning to not judge. Depression is not a weakness, nor fault. It does not deserve judgement and can't just be pushed aside.
How to help?
WE are doing the first step and that is breaking the silence and learning to not judge. Depression is not a weakness, nor fault. It does not deserve judgement and can't just be pushed aside.
Signs
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Things to Look For
- Verbal Cues
- Behavioral Cues
- Personal/Social Cues
verbal:
I shouldn't be here
I going to go away
Maybe if I died...
No one would miss me...
Behavioral:
Joking about death
Giving away prized possessions
Injurious accidents
Self-harming
Obsession with weapons
Change in eating habits
Change is sleeping habits
Previous thoughts/actions
Media revolving around death
Personal/Social:
Changed perspective in lethality
Impulsivity
Isolation/loneliness
Relatives or Friends attempted
hopelessness
Abuse (physical/sexual/verbal)
Adverse Life Event
Loss
Negative environments
Lack of empathy
I shouldn't be here
I going to go away
Maybe if I died...
No one would miss me...
Behavioral:
Joking about death
Giving away prized possessions
Injurious accidents
Self-harming
Obsession with weapons
Change in eating habits
Change is sleeping habits
Previous thoughts/actions
Media revolving around death
Personal/Social:
Changed perspective in lethality
Impulsivity
Isolation/loneliness
Relatives or Friends attempted
hopelessness
Abuse (physical/sexual/verbal)
Adverse Life Event
Loss
Negative environments
Lack of empathy
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Support & Prevention
- Positive Coping Skills
- Proactive Support
- Mental Health Care
- Restrict access to lethal means
- Contact 9-1-1
Resent research strongly suggests that students who experience SLE's better handle them when they have positve coping skills. These are skills that allow the child to
manage their mood
solve problems
resolve conflict
maintain resilient hope
embrace postive beliefs
Family, school, and peers all have strong influences on a person's ablity to hand SLE's.
Contact 9-1-1 if...
Actively looking for a way to kill themselves
Has a plan and attempting to move forward with it
manage their mood
solve problems
resolve conflict
maintain resilient hope
embrace postive beliefs
Family, school, and peers all have strong influences on a person's ablity to hand SLE's.
Contact 9-1-1 if...
Actively looking for a way to kill themselves
Has a plan and attempting to move forward with it
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How to
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Do...
- Take it serious
- Talk Openly
- Take Immeidate Action!
- Show calm, unconditional love
- Stay with them
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Don't...
- "Call their bluff"
- Deny it's happening
- Judge or Blame
- Try and be a therapist
- Leave them alone
- Wait for them to approach you
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Sample Conversation Starters
- Do you ever have thoughts of hurting yourself?
- Do you ever feel so badly that you have thoughts of dying?
- Do you ever wish you oculd disappear?
- I feel like I see you .... more often. Have you noticed this?
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TAKE AWAY
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Educate yourself on depression and suicide
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Assure your child that they can feel better and instill hope
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Resources
- Jason Project
- Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Take 5 to Save Lives
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1(800)273-TALK
