Suicide Intervention Paper

Constant exposure to a melancholic/sad environment, such as a patient in vegetative state, can sometimes lead to depression for the family members. Some member(s) of the family often feels a fluctuation of sad and melancholic mood. Sometimes, a death or constant suffering triggers a person’s brain in a way that it becomes long-term. Financially, payments accumulate. Families are not only troubled by the patient’s condition but also by the financial bills of the hospital.

According to Karaim in 2013 “Decisions about sustaining life, allowing it to end or even hastening death are among the most difficult choices terminally ill patients and their families can face” (para 1). Patients going through this have a bountiful number of things going

INTRODUCTION: This case involved Jason Wayne Lane being a danger to himself. I transported Lane to the Olive View UCLA Medical Center where he was placed on a WIC 5150 hold. INVESTIGATION: On 08-02-17 at approximately 1150 hours, LA County Clinician Vasquez #433353 and I responded to the above location regarding a psychological evaluation.

There are many different emotions, actions, and expressions associated with grieving, which helps the person come to terms with their loss. Not everyone has the same reaction to grief because every loss is different (American Cancer Society, 2014). The personal experience of dying or losing a loved one can be very difficult, especially if the death is unexpected compared to a person who has been ill for a long time (Kazanowski, 2014). Grieving includes the whole emotional process of coping with a loss and it can last a long time for some people. Grieving allows people to let the person close to them go so they can keep living in a healthy way (American Cancer Society, 2014).

2 Assumptions of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide The relatively small area of overlap in the Venn diagram representing the small minority of individuals who possess both desire and capability for suicide. That is what happened in Veronika’s case. Even she only perceive the feeling of thwarted belongingness, but her desire for committing suicide were high and she has the capability for it.

Many people will experience painful headaches, seizures, extreme nausea and even a medical induced coma.(Newton, 8) Assisted suicide is when you are given a diagnosis of six months or less to live and you are given the choice to take part in giving a

“While depression is the most common cause of suicide, many jumpers act impulsively as a consequence of acute stress, shame, humiliation, rejection, or other trauma” (Blaustein). These are classified as “Nonpsychiatric factors (and) include duress due to legal or financial problems, despondency due to emotional upsets (divorce, custody problems, arguments, loss of employment), and medical problems such as chronic pain or terminal cancer”

Assisted suicide is when a person who is terminally ill, (meaning a person with a disease that cannot be cured or treated and will most likely result in death), has the “incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty”. People have the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing; medicine has brought many benefits to humanity, and it cannot entirely solve the pain and distress of the dying process when ill. People who live with great pain everyday of their lives are in likely need of doctor’s assistance for most of their lives, and this is where assisted suicide comes into play. Assisted suicide is when a doctor “prescribes voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician”;

SUICIDE! For many people suicide is an open option they have in order to “escape” the pain or pressures life has engulfed them in, whether they know it or not. The sub-conscious mind is a powerful as the conscious mind and at times even more so. Our intuitive thinking develops there and the decisions are thought there before the conscious mind makes it final. We being human beings have many desires, the desire to love, the desire to hate, to feel comfort, to make uncomfortable, the

If there are any significant loses in a person’s life, such as the death of a pet, a sibling, a parent or a grandparent, they may choose suicide as a way to escape the grief. Also, in some cases, if someone has bad relationship with their peers, or is a victim of bullying, may also end up taking his/her life. For some patients, who have been undergoing surgeries due to some illness, may take up their lives to end their pain and suffering. They may feel that the pain will end once they go away, but little do they know that this affects a lot of people behind them.

Treatment Plan of Ms. Smith Micah Sparks Grand Canyon University Treatment Plan Case History for Treatment Plan Psychological Evaluation Name: Sally Smith SS#: 000-00-0000 DOB/Age: 6/10/1972 42-years-old Date of Examination: 11/26/2016 Examiners: Fred Looney, PhD Chief Complaint: Mental Sources of Information: Clinical Interview with Sally Smith Medical Records Brief Mental Status Examination Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV) Background Information: Ms. Smith is a 42-year-old African American female born November 10, 1972. She currently lives in with her mother.

Ms. Cox is a 16 year old female who presented to the ED following having chest pains this morning after waking up. She reported to ED staff when asked about suicidality, she has recently had thoughts of self-harm and has a history of suicidal ideation. Dr. Gentry requested an assessment to further evaluate. At the time of the assessment Ms. Cox was accompanied by her foster mother. Ms. Cox denies current suicidal ideation.

Growing up requires a high demand of endurance as life is filled with hardships and challenges. Thus in order to live through them, people must be as strong as the stress and anxiety which builds upon them. Both Donald M. Murray’s “What Football Taught Me” and Lisa Keiski’s “Suicide’s Forgotten Victims” demonstrate how to persist life challenges. Despite experiencing different forms of hardships that enable them to survive through their pain, Murray and Keiski transmit life lessons about individual growth. They emphasize survival through society, authority figures, and themselves.

More than 15 million Americans suffer from major depression, that’s approximately 6.7 percent of the American population (ADAA). There is one treatment that is offered to people who suffer from major depression... antidepressants. Although some believe that antidepressants cure their major depression, there are others that disagree and claim that antidepressants actually worsens people’s depression and can lead to suicide. “Antidepressants Can Result to Suicide” written by Angela Bischoff in Opposing Viewpoints provides Bischoff’s and “Hey, Let’s Not Get Carried Away: Anti-Depressants Really Do Help People,” a piece written in The Atlantic by Maura Kelly, are two articles that are persuading two different sides of an argument. Both pieces uses