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‘I am broken inside’: Revisiting lessons from Jiah Khan’s death and suicide note
“All I want now is to go to sleep and never wake up again. I am nothing.” ‘I am broken inside’: Revisiting lessons from Jiah Khan’s death and suicide note Rachel Hercman Aug 25, 2015 at 12:09 pm Jiah Khan’s suicide is now in news again because of Sooraj’s impending movie release. Whether it is a genuine attempt to clear the air or just a PR act, we do not know. However, when we remember the young, beautiful, famous actress deciding she had no other solution than to take her own life, it is a testament to the amount of emotional pain she must have been experiencing. Her suicide note…
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What many people get wrong about suicide
Most suicides are impulsive, but a lot of long-term factors can contribute to the trigger event. What many people get wrong about suicide Updated by German Lopez on September 17, 2015, 1:23 p.m. ET Why do people kill themselves? It’s a question at the heart of suicide prevention: If we know the circumstances surrounding the act, we can better know how to stop it. One myth, for example, is that suicide isn’t impulsive, and people will simply resort to other methods if some lethal means — like guns — aren’t available to them. But Jill Harkavy-Friedman, vice president of research for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, told me years…
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The Death Treatment
He recently approved the euthanasia of a twenty-five-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder who did not “suffer from depression in the psychiatric sense of the word,” he said. “It was more existential; it was impossible for her to have a goal in this life.” The Death Treatment When should people with a non-terminal illness be helped to die? Letter from Belgium JUNE 22, 2015 ISSUE In her diary, Godelieva De Troyer classified her moods by color. She felt “dark gray” when she made a mistake while sewing or cooking. When her boyfriend talked too much, she moved between “very black” and “black!” She was afflicted with the worst kind of…
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Multi-national research identifies behaviors associated with suicide
Borderline personality disorder and substance abuse disorder were comorbid diagnoses most commonly associated with attempted suicide. Multi-national research identifies behaviors associated with suicide Research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress indicate behavior patterns associated with suicide, which may aid clinicians in identifying patients who will eventually attempt suicide. Dina Popovic, PhD, of the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, and colleagues conducted standard mental health interviews among 2,811 patients with depression — 628 of whom had attempted suicide — to identify history of suicide, family history, current and previous treatment, clinical presentation and Global Assessment of Functioning scale scores. Analysis indicated depressive mixed states often preceded attempted suicide, as…
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What I learnt when I tried to kill myself
It’s all too easy to glamourise suicide once it’s happened. To pack out a funeral ceremony, dripping platitudes, telling everyone you “wish you’d known”. But if the potential suicide victim “fails”? What I learnt when I tried to kill myself What do you do when everyone knows what you did? By Charlotte Dingle A few weeks ago I joined the same exclusive club as Drew Barrymore, Eminem, Britney Spears and a host of other celebs. Like your average A-list party, there was plenty of booze and a few pills involved. There was a trip to casualty, too – again, not atypical. But this was a party of one. Mired in…
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How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days (#BPD)
The negative emotions I have are immobilizing. They crash over me like huge waves, knocking the wind out of me and forcing me underwater. How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days August 10, 2015 by Harriet Williamson In the summer of 2010, just before I turned 19 and in my first year of university, I attempted suicide with a month’s supply of my antidepressants and ended up in intensive care, breathing on a machine. By my second year, my good-time friends had had enough of me. I was no longer invited out, and became very isolated and increasingly unhappy. I got into an abusive relationship and…