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World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10, 2020 – If a person has feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and worthlessness, they can progress to suicidal thoughts and tendencies and should not be ignored.
World Suicide Day 2020: Professional help is needed for a person feeling suicidal
HIGHLIGHT
- Talking about feeling trapped or just a suicidal thought
- On September 10, World Suicide Prevention Day is celebrated
- Untreated depression can progress to suicidal thoughts
World Suicide Prevention Day is celebrated on September 10. The day is celebrated around the world to reiterate the global commitment to prevent suicide. The goal of World Suicide Prevention Day is to raise awareness about suicide, its warning signs, and how a person in need can be helped. Suicidal behavior is talking or taking actions that may be related to one’s life. Suicidal thoughts or behaviors should be considered a psychiatric emergency. In the event that you or someone you know is exhibiting them, you should seek immediate assistance from a healthcare provider.
World Suicide Prevention Day: know the warning signs of suicidal thoughts
Identifying suicidal thoughts may not always be easy, as you cannot see what a person is feeling inside. Dr. Sanjay Chugh, Senior Consulting Psychiatrist at Dr. Chugh’s Neuropsychiatry Clinic, New Delhi, talks about how depression can kill if left untreated.
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The cognitive triad of depression occurs when depression progresses to more advanced stages and leaves a person feeling hopeless, helpless, and worthless. He / she loses hope that anything in life will get better, that they are unable to change their circumstances and that they are useless or inferior to others.
“The person begins to harbor thoughts of harming himself. This is known as suicidal ideation,” says Dr. Chugh.
According to Dr. Chugh, the majority of people (about 95%) who contemplate suicide and attempt it have an underlying psychiatric problem, and depression is the most common of these.
So if someone around you says things like that they are fed up with life and don’t want to live, then it should be a cry for help. Dr. Chugh says that it is unfair to expect family and friends to treat depression, which is a medical condition, such as a heart attack. “If you delay or refuse to acknowledge it and go into denial mode, you do so at your own risk. Risks, as we’ve seen so many times around us, are regret for the things you’ve lived with for the rest. of your life, “explains Dr. Chugh in more detail.
Taking timely action can help prevent suicide
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Here are other warning signs that a person is suicidal:
- Talk about feeling trapped or alone
- Giving away personal possessions or making a will
- Saying they have no reason to go on living
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Looking for a means to cause personal harm
- Eating too little or too much
- Dramatic mood swings
- Express anger or revenge intentions.
- Avoid social interaction with others.
- Talk about suicide as a way out
This World Suicide Prevention Day, talk as much as possible about suicide, its warning signs to raise awareness about suicide and prevent an unforeseen circumstance that you can regret for a lifetime. It can be scary, but taking the right steps and helping someone get the help they need can prevent a suicide attempt or death.
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(Dr. Sanjay Chugh is Senior Consulting Psychiatrist at Dr. Chugh’s Neuropsychiatry Clinic, New Delhi)
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