A Clinically Neglected Topic: Risk of Suicide in Transgender Individuals

Yüksel, Şahika; Ertekin, Banu Aslantaş; Öztürk, Mine; Bikmaz, Pervin Sevda; Oğlağu, Zerrin

doi:10.5152/npa.2016.10075

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“…16 Increasing age has been a consistent correlate with presence of suicidal ideation among the transgenders in various studies done in the past. 22,23 The results in this study were different and age was not related to presence of suicide ideation in the target population. Reason might be that transgender community usually lives separately from the routine population; and as the member gets older, he is appointed as head of group of transgender people who work and earn under him.…”

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Prevalence of Suicide Ideation and its Relationship with Depression among Transgender Population

Azeem

Zubair

Jalil

et al. 2019

J Coll Physicians Surg Pak

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Depression is one of the most frequently diagnosed psychiatric illnesses, which remains a big cause of mortality and morbidity among all groups of population. 1 Things are not different in our part of the world as depression remains a common mental health illness in our population. 2 If untreated, it may lead to serious consequences including severe depression with psychotic illness, physical problems and even suicide. [3][4][5] Transgender is a broad term which includes the people with all types of gender identity disorder. ICD-11 coins a new term for this group of people, i.e. gender incongruence. In United States of America, 390/100,000 individuals are believed to be transgenders. 6 Census of 2017 has shown that more than 10,000 transgender subjects exist in Pakistan. They suffer from various health issues including the HIV, drug dependence, and various mental health problems. 7,8 Previous research highlights the presence of depression and suicide ideation among the transgender population. Depression, suicide and other mental health indices are very high among the transgender population as compared to controls even in a developed country like USA. 9 Another study showed suicide attempt rate as 32-50% among the transgender population of our neighboring country India. This was also coupled with increased rate of depression among the target population. 10 Oswalt et al. concluded in a large study that all mental health illnesses including schizophrenia are found more among the transgender as compared to heterosexual controls. 11 Depression and suicidal ideation, if remain unaddressed for long, may result in poor life quality and even leading to death. 12 Suicidality and depression have some common biological pathways, which explain one of the bases of their comorbidity. Role of genetics, alteration in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, dysregulation of serotonin metabolism and receptors and neuroimmunological basis are some of the factors which contribute in development of both depression and suicidality. 13 In addition to the biological factors, depression also leads to suicidal ideation and suicidality by psychological and social pathways. 14 Ideas of self harm are also part of diagnostic criteria for depression in

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Prevalence of Suicide Ideation and its Relationship with Depression among Transgender Population

Azeem

Zubair

Jalil

et al. 2019

J Coll Physicians Surg Pak

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“…Türkiye'de üniversite kliniklerinde yapılan çalışmalarda da yaşam boyu ruhsal bozukluk yaygınlığı ve özkıyım girişimi öyküsü yüksek oranlarda bildirilmiştir (Kaptan 2010, Turan ve ark. 2015, Yüksel ve ark. 2016).…”

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Resilience in Individuals with Gender Dysphoria: Association with Perceived Social Support And Discrimination

Başar¹,

Öz²

2016

Turkish Journal of Psychiatry

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“…Their increasing awareness of distal stressors in their homes (e.g., caregivers with rejecting behaviors), schools (e.g. victimization), communities (e.g., discrimination), and society (e.g., systemic oppression) may lead to increased levels of internalized stigma (i.e., proximal stressors) and distress (Yüksel et al, 2017). For some TGD youth, the onset of puberty can also cause stress.…”

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Suicide among LGBTQIA+ youth: A review of the treatment literature

Russon

Washington

Machado³

et al. 2022

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Suicide is a serious public health problem among adolescent and young adults. Indeed, 12.1% of adolescents contemplate suicide, 4.0% make a plan, and 4.1% make an attempt (Nock et al., 2013). LGBTQIA+ youth (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex and/or asexual adolescents and young adults) are particularly vulnerable to suicide (CDC, 2016; Liu & Mustanksi, 2012;Peters et al., 2019). While many LGBTQIA+ youth are healthy and resilient (Ream & Savin-Williams, 2005) they often report higher rates of both suicidal ideation and behavior than their heterosexual (Haas et al., 2011) and cisgender (James et al., 2016) peers. The purpose of this paper is to provide a structured review the state of suicide treatment research for LGBTQIA+ youth and offer recommendations for future directions.

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A Clinically Neglected Topic: Risk of Suicide in Transgender Individuals

Abstract: Transsexual individuals present a high risk of suicide, particularly during adolescence. This finding may be considered a sign for taking action to prevent suicide when working with transgender individuals, particularly during adolescence.

Cited by 34 publications

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Prevalence of Suicide Ideation and its Relationship with Depression among Transgender Population

Prevalence of Suicide Ideation and its Relationship with Depression among Transgender Population

Resilience in Individuals with Gender Dysphoria: Association with Perceived Social Support And Discrimination

Suicide among LGBTQIA+ youth: A review of the treatment literature

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