Illness
A brain disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
What is Depression?
Statements of hopelessness, listening to music, watching media, writing about death or suicide, isolating, withdrawing from friends, family, etc., a change in eating or sleeping patterns, risk-taking or self-harm.
What are warning signs of suicide?
Family history of mental disorder or substance abuse, family history of suicide, family violence, physical or sexual abuse.
What are risk factors of suicide?
Overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs.
What is substance abuse?
A mental disorder marked by alternating periods of elation and depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
It is a warning that something is terribly wrong
What is suicidal depression?
Choosing to be alone and avoiding friends or social activities and the loss of interest or pleasure in activities the person previously enjoyed
What is withdrawal?
When someone uses abusive behavior to control and/or harm a member of their family, or someone with whom they have an intimate relationship.
What is family violence?
True or false? More than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression across the globe; that’s about 5% of the entire population.
What is true?
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome
What is Anxiety?
The most common situations or life events that might cause suicidal thoughts include ________________ (list two).
What are grief, sexual abuse, financial problems, remorse, rejection, relationship breakup and unemployment?
Feeling a deep sense of despair about the future, with little expectation that circumstances can improve.
What is hopelessness?
Thinking about, considering, or planning suicide.
What is suicidal ideation?
A decreased use of drugs and/or alcohol is related to an increase in suicidal behavior. True or false?
What is false?
An increase in drug and/or alcohol use is related to increased suicidal behaviors.
A deeply ingrained and maladaptive pattern of behavior of a specified kind, typically manifest by the time one reaches adolescence and causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society.
What is a personality disorder?
This type of depression makes you feel like you don't want to live anymore.
What is suicidal depression?
Harming yourself.
What is self-harm?
A more severe form of depression, also known as major depression or major depressive disorder. It isn't the same as depression caused by a loss, such as the death of a loved one, or a medical condition, such as a thyroid disorder.
What is clinical depression?
When a person has a solid plan for suicide, they can suddenly act __________.
What is calmly?
Suicide is a___ cause of death in the United States.
What is leading?
Most people who are depressed ______ kill themselves.
What is do not?
Untreated depression can increase the risk of possible suicide.
A non-fatal, self-directed, potentially injurious behavior with intent to die as a result of the behavior. This might not result in injury.
What is a suicide attempt?
On average, one person dies by suicide in Wyoming every ______day(s).
What is two?
True or false? The risk of alcoholics eventually committing suicide is over five times greater than that of non-alcoholics.
What is true?