“Today the causes of suicide are similarly unknown, but evidence from multiple sources suggests that certain types of treatments and interventions can reduce suicidal behaviors better than status quo practices, which often conceptualizes suicide as a symptom or outcome of mental illness. Consistent with this perspective, status quo practices target a patients diagnosed mental illness based on the assumption that reducing these symptoms or eliminating the psychological or behavioral disorder also will reduce or eliminate the risk of suicide.” SuicideSuicide PreventionSuicide QuotesSuicide Attempts Book:Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better Source: Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better
“If for example you are diagnosed with depression, then your clinician might prescribe therapy to reduce your depression and or recommend anti-depressant medication. As we have discussed previously though, reducing the symptoms of mental illness does not seem to reduce the probability that someone will make a suicide attempt. Two treatments in particular, dialectical behavior therapy DBT and cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, CBT-SP, have demonstrated the ability to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors in multiple studies conducted by multiple research teams. Other treatments that share many of the same characteristics and components as these treatments via attempted suicide.” SuicideMental HealthSuicide PreventionSuicide AttemptSuicide Attempts Book:Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better Source: Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better