Talking About
A desire to ___.
Feeling despair about something
What is hopelessness?
Withdrawing from _____.
What are family, friends, and hobbies?
The opposite of beating around the bush.
What is blunt or direct?
This many college students contemplate suicide in college.
What is the 1 out of 10 statistic?
A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
What is shame?
A synonym for meaningless, aimless, or worthless.
What is empty?
What is alcohol?
Where you would send someone who is experiencing suicidal ideation to on campus.
What is the University Counseling Center?
This is the second-leading cause of death among college students.
What is suicide?
The fact of having committed a specified or implied offense.
What is guilt?
What is unbearable?
Rapid and significant changes in emotional state ranging from euphoric to depressed or irritable.
What are mood swings?
People who care about someone with suicidal ideation is using scared to do this.
What is "Asking someone if they are contemplating suicide?"
Approximately this number of students die by suicide each year.
What is 1,100?
To carry or withstand something with great difficulty.
What is a burden?
Common emotions experienced by an individual contemplating suicide.
What is anxiety, depression, agitation, or rage?
Behavior that someone who has a defined plan will start to do.
What is giving away items, saying goodbyes, or making a will?
A common misconception about supporting someone experiencing suicidal ideation.
What is the fear that asking will influence someone to kill themself?
This gender is more likely to die by suicide.
Who are men?
(Women on the other hand have higher rates of suicidal thinking and attempts than men.)
Crosby AE, Han B, Ortega LAG, Parks SE, Gfroerer J. Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adults aged ≥18 years: United States, 2008-2009. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2011:60(SS13);1-22.
Vijayakumar L. Suicide in women. Indian J Psychiatry. 2015;57(Suppl 2):S233-8. doi:10.4103/0019-5545.161484