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Signs of Suicide (Mayo Clinic Family Health Book)

When a person signs of potential suicide, it is important to keep an eye on them and seek professional help as soon as possible. A person who intends to commit suicide one or more symptoms show, but it is important to note that these signs are only guidelines. It is a kind of suicide person.

• Withdrawal - The person who refuses to communicate and seems an irresistible desire have to be alone.
• Mood swings - Although we all have our ups and downs, if changes are dramatic - a "high" emotional, followed by a day as a "depressed", the next - no cause for alarm.
• Life crisis or trauma - in a deeply depressed person, divorce, death or accident can trigger a suicide attempt.
• Personality change - The Wallflower is the life of the party, or vice versa.
• Threat - it can be said categorically that he or she wants to commit suicide, saying things like: "I wish I had not been born" The popular belief that people who threaten suicide are never really not. Not true.
• Gifts - The person begins to "give up" their dearest friends and family wealth.
• Depression - The person appears physically depressed and unable to function socially or to be at work.
• Assault - Suicidal desire can manifest in student participation of the person in hazardous activities such as driving at high speed.

  The risk of suicide is to be completed is increased in older men, in people who have lost a spouse, in alcoholics, the. Using a previous suicide attempt or family history of suicide For more information about suicide, visit MayoClinic.com.

- Mayo Clinic

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