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Suicide Warning Signs, Statistics, and Prevention

Suicide, or the taking of one’s own life, can be a difficult thing to understand. Here you can ask and answer questions about the warning signs of suicide, where to give or get help, how to deal with the after effects of someone you know killing themselves, statistics, and moral or religious views. The intent is not to offer answers to how to harm yourself. If you feel like you need to talk to someone or are worried about someone you know, a listing of hotline numbers can be found in the answer to What should you do if you are contemplating suicide?

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What is suicide mouse?

So do any of you remember those Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 1930s? The ones that were just put out on DVDa few years ago? Well, I hear there is one that was unreleased to even the most avid classic Disney fans. According to sources, it's nothing special. It's just a continuous loop (like flinstones) of mickey walking past 6 buildings that goes on for two or three minutes before fading out. Unlike the cutesy tunes put in though, the song on this cartoon was not a song at all, just a constant banging on a piano as if the keys for a minute and a half before going to white noise for the remainder of the film. It wasn't the jolly old Mickey we've come to love either, Mickey wasn't dancing, not even smiling, just kind of walking as if you or I were walking, with a normal facial expression, but for some reason his head tilted side to side as he kept this dismal look. Up until a year or two ago, everyone believed that after it cut to black and that was it. When Leonard Maltin was reviewing the cartoon to be put in the complete series, he decided it was too junk to be on the DVD, but wanted to have a digital copy due to the fact that it was a creation of Walt. When he had a digitized version up on his computer to look at the file, he noticed something. The cartoon was actually 9 minutes and 4 seconds long. This is what my source emailed to me, in full (he is a personal assistant of one of the higher executives at Disney, and acquaintance of Mr. Maltin himself)

"After it cut to black, it stayed like that until the 6th minute, before going back into Mickey walking. The sound was different this time. It was a murmur. It wasn't a language, but more like a gurgled cry. As the noise got more indistinguishable and loud over the next minute, the picture began to get weird. The sidewalk started to go in directions that seemed impossible based on the physics of Mickeys walking. And the dismal face of the mouse was slowly curling into a smirk. On the 7th minute, the murmur turned into a bloodcurdling scream (the kind of scream painful to hear) and the picture was getting more obscure. Colors were happening that shouldn't have been possible at the time. Mickey face began to fall apart. his eyes rolled on the bottom of his chin like two marbles in a fishbowl, and his curled smile was pointing upward on the left side of his face. The buildings became rubble floating in midair and the sidewalk was still impossibly navigating in warped directions, a few seeming inconceivable with what we, as humans, know about direction. Mr. Maltin got disturbed and left the room, sending an employee to finish the video and take notes of everything happening up until the last second, and afterward immediately store the disc of the cartoon into the vault. This distorted screaming lasted until 8 minutes and a few seconds in, and then it abruptly cuts to the mickey mouse face at the credits of the end of every video with what sounded like a broken music box playing in the background. This happened for about 30 seconds, and whatever was in that remaining 30 seconds I haven't been able to get a sliver of information.

Why does the Devil want you to kill yourself?

he is evil and you need to get some help and pray if you feel like doing those actions

Can scabies drive someone to suicide?

Suicide is a very drastic, end all action. While I imagine scabies could drive a person to the brink from the itching they cause, I believe treatment will be sought out before anything as drastic as suicide unfolds.

What does comit suicide mean?

To commit suicide means the destruction of ones self, or the killing of ones self

How do you stop someone from committing suicide?

In an emergency, in the US call 1-800-273-TALK or 911Suicide is preventable. If you or someone you know is suicidal, recovery is possible. Start by knowing the warning signs and do everything possible to get help.

Warnings signs of suicide:

  • Ideation (Thinking about suicide)
  • Substance use or abuse
  • Purposelessness (No sense of belonging or purpose)
  • Anger
  • Trapped (Feeling there is no way out)
  • Hopelessness (Feeling there is nothing to live for)
  • Withdrawal
  • Anxiety
  • Recklessness (high-risk taking behavior)
  • Mood disturbance (dramatic change in mood)

Additional Warning Signs of Suicide:

  • Talking about suicide.
  • Statements of hopelessness, or worthlessness.
  • Preoccupation with death.
  • Suddenly happier, calmer.
  • Loss of interest in things one cares about.
  • Visiting or calling people one cares about.
  • Making arrangements, setting ones affairs in order.
  • Giving things away, such as prized possessions.

If you see these signs, be willing to talk about suicide with the person in danger. Ask questions in a non-threatening way. If you feel this person is in immediate danger they should see a mental health professional or doctor immediately. Call 911 or take them to the emergency room.

Suicide Is Not OkayNo suicide is not ok. Find someone you can trust and believe in to talk to. There is too much in life to live for. If you have children you need to think about them, and if you don't have childen you need to think about yourself.

Live life to the fullest don't let any one take that joy away from you.

Suicide is the refusal to do any more learning this lifetime so that it is really a waste of time to be here since to learn is the sole reason we are here. Killing yourself will not in any way solve anything. You still have to come back and learn, so really you would just be putting it off. You can run but you can't hide. It may not appear this way to you, but it's rough on all of us. We all must come to an understanding of the choices we have made and are making. We must all learn to make more productive choices than unproductive. Our experiences give us the opportunity to do so. All our experiences are a direct or indirect result of choices we've made. I only say indirect because many of the choice we make, we don't remember. This is why concentration exercises are important, so we can remember how we set up what we are now experiencing.

More HelpTry to get them to call a suicide and crisis hot line.

Try to stall them. Say if they've made up their mind, they can always wait a little and do it later. Buy time. Get help. A trained counselor will know what to say. Love and instinct may not be enough.

Don't leave them alone; if you can't stay with them make sure someone can. Do what ever you have to and get them help.

Let a mature responsible adult know. They should (hopefully) be able to offer more help and be more aware of what help can be provided, assuming your friend is serious of course. Don't take this on yourself. It could lead to a lifetime of heartache and soul searching. Get help, and if your friend complains tell them you thought it was a call for help, which you were trying to provide, like good friends should, rather than a selfish call for attention by being so inconsiderate as to dump something like that on you.

Keep a close eye on your friend. Do not leave them alone if you can help it. Contact your local crisis center or mental health office.

Never say to the person anything that questions his seriousness about following through ie 'You wouldn't do that!' But, very importantly, express to them 'I don't want you to do it.'and 'Please don't do it.' Let the person know that you hear what they are saying, and make it clear that you intend to stick around for them. If you don't feel confident in your own abilities, accompany them to a place where someone can help.

Then you should speak to a family member, a counsellor or a suicide crisis line. Thinking like that means you are depressed and depression is a treatable illness and the recovery times are often less than 3 months. Just cause you think it, doesn't mean you have to follow through, just recognise that they are just thoughts and if you shrug them off, they will pass.

See the Related Web Link

Please take the time to look at the web link to the left titled "How Can You Help People Who Want To Commit Suicide." This site has links to many other related sites as well.

Please talk to a counselor about your problems, nothing is bad enough to take your own life over.

Suicidal ReasonsMany people commit suicide due to a massive lack of self-commitment and self-confidence. Some people are bullied by friends or family, or some people are bullied by themselves (a psychic problem such as hearing voices pushing the person to do things against their will etc.). Most don't realise that their life is important to them and some experience severe depression after the loss of a loved one or financial ruin etc.

you, talk to him and see if hes serious, then i know you probaly don't want to be a tatle tale but you need to tell someone u can save his life, it may be worth it. First, my heart goes out to you. Secondly please know you WILL be okay and even happy again.

The best and easiest place to start is with your family doctor. A lot of people don't think of this since they're used to going to the family doctor for "minor" medical problems (colds, shots, physicals, etc.)

If you are feeling down and/or thinking of suicide because of everything going wrong, please know that you is normal. Its called "situational depression" and I had it. Even if everything was going great and you were depressed that is normal to. But its NOT normal to allow it to continue. You need either counseling or a combination of counseling and medication.

Please keep in mind (be careful) that if you tell a medical professional or someone in law enforcement that you are definitely considering suicide, they are required, by law, to protect you from yourself. This could mean an automatic stay in the hospital for a period of a few days.

Beyond that, you can find online support groups for depression (Yahoo and MSN are great sources for online support groups) and you can find self help books at your local library.

Please get help and please let us know how you're doing. Life is really a bummer sometimes but that happens to everyone. Trust me. Even people who SEEM happy aren't all the time. This is just a bad time in your life. It is NOT the rest of your life. You deserve to be happy again. And you will.

Suicide is Not the SolutionFirst of all, you have to be going through some very difficult times to be asking a question like this. Before you make that decision, you should talk to someone who might be able to help you through whatever difficulties you are facing. Talking to another person may help you put a different perspective on your situation. You might also consider how many people killing yourself would affect, and how they will feel if you go through with something like that. There are also people you may not have met yet that your life will affect later.

From a more personal standpoint, many people have times in their lives when they feel like they have no reason to go on living. I have gone through times like that myself. Once, when I was going through a very difficult marrital situation, I started thinking that life just was not worth living and contemplated ending it all. Needless to say, I did not follow through because I am here to write this.

Financial stresses have also caused me to question whether life is really worth living. One thing has been true for every situation, though. Eventually, the situation has gotten better.

Suicide may end your pain, but it will cause others to hurt. With the technology we have today, it is very difficult to make a suicide look like an accident, so people who love you would always question what they could have done for you. A much better choice is to deal with whatever pain and problems you are having and spare others the pain that you would be causing them. Whatever your situation is right now, things will get better. They always do.

Again, emergency numbers:National Suicide Prevention Hotline:1-800-273-8255

Suicide Certified Crisis Hotline:1-800-784-2433

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

http://www.hopeline.com

How does the DEVIL make Someone Think of Committing Suicide?

well in the religious world its really because everything you do/ think of doing is evil. In reality, its a personal issue that people deal with themselves. Of course, this presumes that we aren't on some devine path created by god.

in all seriousness if you're worried, about someone, try to suggest they talk to a GP as a first step.

Why are single people are more inclined to commit suicide than married people?

People who are single, divorced or widowed are

2-3 times as likely to commit suicide as married people, especially

among men (Clayton, 1983; Murphy, 1983). For married women (esp.

ages 20 to 30), there is some evidence that they are more likely to

attempt suicide than single women (Shneidman & Farberow, 1970).

How many people have committed suicide after being on a reality TV show?

It would be a guess on how many people have committed suicide after appearing on a realty TV show. James Terrill, who appeared on Supernanny, and Mindy McCready, who appeared on Celebrity Rehab, both committed suicide.

How many bisexual people commit suicide?

Unfortunately, exact numbers are not really known. Many bisexuals are not public with their lifestyles. Other times, when the suicides are reported, they are put down as either homosexual or heterosexual. The numbers on bisexuals are not usually accurately kept.

According to a study published by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, bisexual men are 6.3 times more likely, and bisexual women 5.9 times more likely to commit suicide than heterosexuals.

The study showed that bisexual individuals face issues from both gay and straight cultures. Often, they receive pressure from the straight community for being gay, and from the gay culture for not being gay enough. This puts them at a higher suicide risk due to anxiety, as well as more stress related mental health issues of other sorts.

However, according to the Family Acceptance Project, LGB teens that came from a family that rejected them are 8.4 times more likely to attempt suicide than ones that came from families that supported them.

Report from San Francisco Human Rights Commission: http://www.birequest.org/docstore/2011-SF_HRC-Bi_Iinvisibility_Report.pdf

The Trevor Project Facts About Suicide: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/pages/facts-about-suicide

What percent is it when a guy gets suicide?

Males commit suicide at a greater percentage than females. Out of all the suicides committed yearly, about 79% of them are males.

Did nick drake commit suicide?

No. Nick Drake died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping pill he was taking.

Which city where no one committed Suicide?

For probably centuries- Vatican City, but there was a sordid incident in the late nineties.

Do people regret suicide?

There is no way to know the answer to this question since if a person is successful they are dead. Dead people can not tell us if they regret doing it. Those who do live through it sometimes do regret it.

Is suicide selfish?

Suicide can be selfish, for example to commit suicide is literally stopping one's life, yes but that's one, there has been cases where two people have committed suicide together but for the most part suicide is the destruction of one's life. This is without mentioning the impact on family members, friends or even people who don't know you.

Take for example, the Megan Meier case. If you don't know about the case then use the link in the related links area below. She left this world because of that boy, who wasn't really boy but another parent wondering if Megan was talking about her own daughter. So she took her life.

Suicide is selfish at times , but more of the times the people bullying or doing other stuff are the ones that are being selfish. Suicide is selfish because if you think of it, taking one's life because of something someone else did and only thinking about yourself is selfish, so I guess there's not really an explanation for this question but there are things to prove is both is and isn't.

What exactly is a suicide club?

The term suicide club refers to both literal and metaphorical events. In the literal sense, suicide club speaks to the rash of suicides within a culture. Suicide Club is a Japanese film about a group of students who jump in front of an oncoming train. Metaphorically, suicide club describes people who thrill seek or make moves that might shock one's sensibility. Where individuals or people risk life and limb or professional careers to make a point or experience an adrenaline rush.

How did Jared Benjamin High commit suicide?

Jared Benjamin shot himself, there is no evidence to support that it was as a clear result of bullying. He had a disability which could have equally made him depressed. The only person that will know why he did it, is dead, the boy himself.

What does Bullied to Death mean?

when kids get bullied so much their depression grows so much they decide their is no way out and comit suicide

Why did Milton Resnick commit suicide?

I live in England and I have only ever been able to see his work in reproduction but I have been most impressed by its seriousness. However, as a thirty-seven year old painter it does seem to me that painting is no longer on any committed level at all a part of "culture". Milton Resnick was a very genuine, but much older painter and perhaps he felt it is a different world altogether now - incapable of appreciating or reciprocating anything with his achievements now that painting is so much more a secret sort of Shangri-La, which he knew about but who else? At his age he might have felt nobody took an interest and he may have felt no possibility of a relationship vis a vis digital and photographic culture. Perhaps he was feeling in need of some dignity. Maybe he was not even only sad. There could have been some serenity in it. I don't know how he did it. Most Sincerely, Anthony Seymour

If a non married single parent commits suicide who gains guardianship of children?

Hopefully the person deceased has left a Will with provisions for the children. If not, then the courts prefer the children to go to a relative in the family. If there are no relatives then the childen will become a ward of the courts. If there is a close friend that can prove they can finally support and raise these children in a loving environment and there is not contest from family of the deceased there is a big chance that friend can raise the children.