Suicide attempters ten years later

Weiss, Jocelyn M.; Scott, Kenneth F.

doi:10.1016/0010-440x(74)90033-9

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“…The failed attempt does not really constitute successful coping, and so when the crisis is over, the life problems may often still be there waiting. Indeed, Weiss and Scott (1974) found that relatively few suicide attempters had made major changes in their life-styles within 10 years after the attempt. As a result, suicidal people may recover more slowly than people experiencing other psychiatric crises, and they may be more vulnerable to relapses (Moss & Hamilton, 1956; Overholser et al, 1987).…”

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Suicide as escape from self.

Baumeister

1990

Psychological Review

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Suicide is analyzed in terms of motivations to escape from aversive self-awareness. The causal chain begins with events that fall severely short of standards and expectations. These failures are attributed internally, which makes self-awareness painful. Awareness of the self's inadequacies generates negative affect, and the individual therefore desires to escape from self-awareness and the associated affect. The person tries to achieve a state of cognitive deconstruction (constricted temporal focus, concrete thinking, immediate or proximal goals, cognitive rigidity, and rejection of meaning), which helps prevent meaningful self-awareness and emotion. The deconstructed state brings irrationality and disinhibition, making drastic measures seem acceptable. Suicide can be seen as an ultimate step in the effort to escape from self and world.

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Suicide as escape from self.

Baumeister

1990

Psychological Review

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“…Suicide attempt is known to be an important risk factor for suicide death [ 6 , 7 ]. In fact, 10% of suicide attempts subsequently lead to suicide within 10 years [ 8 ]. In addition, psychiatric disorders are significantly related to suicide death and SA [ 9 - 11 ].…”

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Predictors of Psychiatric Outpatient Adherence after an Emergency Room Visit for a Suicide Attempt

Shin

Yang

Park

et al. 2020

Psychiatry Investig

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Objective This study aimed to investigate the potential correlation between baseline characteristics of individuals visiting an emergency room for a suicide attempt and subsequent psychiatric outpatient treatment adherence.Methods Medical records of 525 subjects, who visited an emergency room at a university-affiliated hospital for a suicide attempt between January 2017 and December 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Potential associations between baseline characteristics and psychiatric outpatient visitation were statistically analyzed.Results 107 out of 525 individuals (20.4%) who attempted suicide visited an outpatient clinic after the initial emergency room visit. Several factors (e.g., sober during suicide attempt, college degree, practicing religion, psychiatric treatment history) were significantly related to better psychiatric outpatient follow-up.Conclusion Several demographic and clinical factors predicted outpatient adherence following a suicide attempt. Therefore, additional attention should be given to suicide attempters who are at the risk of non-adherence by practitioners in the emergency room.

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“…While attempted and completed suicide are to some extent independent categories of behaviour (Shneidman and Farberow, 1961;Kennedy et al, 1974), depressed persons with a history of attempted suicide may be regarded as a group at extremely high risk of death by suicide, since suicide-attempters have a high rate of completed suicide (Tuckman and Youngman, 1963) and psychiatric patients who commit suicide are quite likely to have previously been diagnosed as depressed (Flood and Seager, 1968;Robin et al, 1968). Since the risk of completed suicide is raised still further for patients with a history of a serious suicide attempt rather than a nonlethal suicidal gesture (Motto, 1965;Weiss and Scott, 1974), an effort was also made in the present study to identify variables which distinguish serious suicide attempters from patients who have made suicidal threats or gestures and from non-suicidal depressed patients.…”

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Factors associated with attempted suicide among hospitalized depressed patients

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SynopsisAn attempt was made to identify background, sociodemographic and clinical variables which are associated with attempted suicide in depression. Within a sample of 308 depressed psychiatric inpatients, suicide attempters were younger than non-attempters and were identified by a pattern of chronic interpersonal maladjustment reflected clinically in withdrawal from social contact and the display of hostility or irritability toward others.

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Suicide attempters ten years later

Cited by 13 publications

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Suicide as escape from self.

Suicide as escape from self.

Predictors of Psychiatric Outpatient Adherence after an Emergency Room Visit for a Suicide Attempt

Factors associated with attempted suicide among hospitalized depressed patients

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