03 March 2009

No Link Between Suicide and Mental Illness - Suicide Rate Up

With the suicide rate up it is important to remember an important study finding that there is no strong connection between suicide and mental illness. This finding as per the "Suicide resource center" is very important. The importance of this finding stops us from labeling those who have suicidal thoughts as all mentally ill. There are some mental illnesses that are associated with suicide but to label all suicidal thoughts as a mental illness would be wrong. As the suicide rate increases we must take a closer look at this growing problem.

It was easier to classify suicides when we felt that it was only related to mental illnesses, this allowed the medical association to have a quick answer to a growing problem. It is common for the media to report that a person who was off their medicine committed suicide. Although it is possible that a person off medicine could commit suicide it does not answer the problem of why the person has suicidal thoughts. Medicine can help a person with suicidal thoughts but medicine does not cure the origin of suicide thoughts.

Medicine can help a person function that has suicidal thoughts but the cure of suicidal thoughts does not occur with medicine. Often a person will need medicine forever to function.

If it is not mental illness that is causing a person to have suicidal thoughts what is? Firstly to have thoughts of suicide is to think within that you cannot go on one more day. The person is at the end of their rope. A person may see no end to a problem that is in front of them. The answer to the suicidal person is to end it all. It is an escape from a problem that they believe has no solution. Each case is different but there is a common thread that suicidal people have and that is depression. Depression is a growing problem and it is related in many ways to suicide. This is a critical problem that must be addressed immediately. There can be no delay when a person has a long period of depression or has suicidal thoughts.

This is a life or death situation that must be taken very seriously. Suicidal thoughts can surround a person for a long period of time before they act. There are now other methods that can help a person besides medicine and therapy. Medicine and therapy can help but they are not the only approaches. There has been a new approach that has had results that are very helpful; This "Source Fill" approach is helping many people with suicidal thoughts. The problem of suicide can affect anyone family and suicidal thoughts do not discriminate. One must address the problem urgently; it is a matter of life and death.

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