Suicide can be caused and prevented by several of these things

Suicide is often a last resort when a person feels that his life problems cannot be resolved. However, this is not the case. You can prevent suicides from happening in your neighborhood if you know the characteristics and causes of someone wanting to end their life.

Suicide fact

A person's response when facing a problem varies. There are those who are optimistic when they are experiencing many problems. There are also those who are pessimistic while feeling inadequate and feel that their life is no longer meaningful. A person's response is influenced by how strong a person is mentally facing a problem.

A person's mentality can be built from how his lifetime experiences are lived. If he often gets into trouble and gets through it, there is a chance that he could become a strong person and want to fight for his life.

Then if he is a person who often experiences repeated failures and feels hopeless, this can also be a cause of suicide.

In addition, there is a feeling of being disrespected, comparing life with other people, not to mention social pressures such as bullying , will make people experience stress. Stress that is not managed properly will cause a person to become depressed.

Depression leads to suicidal thoughts. This is no longer a taboo subject. In 2015, in the counseling report of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, there were 810 suicides in Indonesia.

What causes a person to want to commit suicide?

The desire to end your life can be based on the following factors:

1. Depression

Depression is one mental illness or mental illness, but the symptoms are a little hard to spot or recognize. Often a person realizes that something is wrong with him, but he doesn't know how to get out of the problem.

Likewise, when someone is gloomy and always closes himself up, sometimes people assume and think it is the character of someone who is lazy or even not very sociable.

Depression also often makes a person think that no one loves him anymore, makes someone regret his life, or even thinks that if he dies there is nothing to lose.

2. The existence of an impulsive attitude

Impulsive means doing something based on impulse (impulse). Impulsiveness is not necessarily bad, there is always a bright side. Impulsive people can do things spontaneously

However, impulsive people usually become clumsy and tend to be reckless. Unfortunately, this impulsive behavior can be dangerous when accompanied by negative thoughts, risking causing him to think quickly about ending his life by suicide.

3. Social problems

There are some people who have no intention of committing suicide. Unfortunately, because this person could not survive and get out of the social problems they were facing, he finally chose to commit suicide.

Social problems such as being excluded, bullying, or even being betrayed can trigger people to think about ending their life. Some people think that by hurting themselves, this can bring awareness to those who hurt them.

4. Philosophy about death

Some people have different philosophies about death. In fact, the term "people who commit suicide, do not want to end their life, but want to end the pain they feel." Pain here can refer to pain caused by an incurable disease.

Such people are not in a state of depression. They see no chance of survival, so they choose their own destiny by hastening to end the pain.

5. Other mental illnesses

The Psychological Autopsy study found that in cases of suicide found one or more diagnoses of mental illness in 90% of people who commit suicide. It also found that one in twenty people who suffer from schizophrenia end their life. Suicide cases are also found in personality disorders such as antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorder.

Other factors to watch out for, such as:

• A bad experience that triggers a trauma

Trauma that occurs during childhood can form in a person's subconscious mind. In the end, it will be difficult to get out of the trauma. The trauma will hold someone back, even if a person is unable to forgive and make peace with oneself for the bad things that happened to him. The fatal impact, he risked suicide.

• Heredity

Genetic heredity can also cause a person to commit suicide. If any of your family has a history of suicide, you need to practice positive thinking when you have serious problems or under any circumstances, keep thinking positive.

The sign of someone who is suicidal

You can watch for signs of someone wanting to commit suicide if there is a change in behavior that occurs in your family or relatives. It could be that the person is unable to deal with their problems and is in need of help.

There are several signs that someone is suicidal, such as:

• Always speak of desperation or giving up
• Always talking about death
• Taking actions that lead to death, such as reckless driving, doing extreme sports without caution, or taking excessive doses of medication
• Losing interest in the things he likes
• Talking or talking post something with troubled life words, such as hopelessness and feeling worthless
• Saying something blaming her like "this wouldn't have happened if I wasn't here" or "they would be better off without me"
• Drastic mood swings, from being sad to suddenly feeling happy
• Talk about death and suicide
• Saying goodbye to someone, even though he has no plans to go anywhere.
• Severe depression that made him have sleep disorders

How to handle it?

Every problem has a solution. No matter how big it is, the problem will also end. All you need to do if you or your relatives experience signs of wanting to get away is to seek professional help, see a therapist.

Hang out with positive and supportive people. Always remember, that life is temporary, your problems are only temporary without having to end your life. Everyone on earth is valuable and can have a good role, and most importantly never give up.

If your friend or relative is in trouble and is discouraged, you should be a good listener. Try to talk to a therapist, but don't argue about death or suicide. People who have serious problems tend not to think rationally. Keep encouraging.

When people are depressed, generally the drugs used in medicine are antidepressants. You must first consult a doctor before using it.

Attention!

If you have symptoms of depression, have suicidal feelings, or know someone is having suicidal thoughts, contact them call center police on 110 or mental health services belonging to the Ministry of Health at number 119 or 118.

You can also contact the Mental Hospital (RSJ) for first aid, for example:

• RSJ Marzoeki Mahdi Bogor 0251-8310611, professional psychologists and psychiatrists from RSJ will provide 24-hour service.
• Services that are usually available at several large hospitals or RSJ Dr Soeharto Herdjan Grogol Jakarta which can be connected to their emergency unit for immediate help.
• Health services The Social Security Administering Bodies (BPJS) also facilitate Indonesian citizens who need mental health consultation services, for example depression.