Suicide as a Response to Trauma
For individuals without pre-existing medical or psychiatric issues, trauma is highly correlated to depressive and/or anxious symptoms, withdrawal, and most notably suicidal ideations or attempts. For those with existing medical conditions such as mood or
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Handbook of Suicidal Behaviour
Handbook of Suicidal Behaviour
Updesh Kumar Editor
Handbook of Suicidal Behaviour
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Editor Updesh Kumar Defence Institute of Psychological Research Defence Research and Development Organization Delhi India
ISBN 978-981-10-4815-9 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4816-6
ISBN 978-981-10-4816-6
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Foreword
Suicide is among the most tragic events in human life, causing a great deal of serious psychological distress among the relatives and friends of the victims as well as great economic burden for the whole society. The fact that around 800,000 people die by suicide throughout the world annually clearly shows the magnitude of this problem. Most suicides worldwide occur due to less developed or scarcely available health and social services, especially in low- and middle-income countries. While the national suicide rates of most European countries and China decreased markedly during the last few decades and especially sharply since the 1980s after the widespread availability of antidepressants, there has been no significant change in India, and in the USA, with the overall suicide rate increasing substantially, by 24% between 1999 and 2014. Suicidal behaviour is a highly complex, multi-causal phenomenon, involving several psychiatric, biomedical, psychosocial, demographic and cultural components. The history of, mostly untreated, major psychiatri
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