Suicide Can Be Prevented?

People who intend to commit suicide are often hidden thoughts or refuse to socialize with others. So that family or friends are confused by this behavior change and hard to prevent it.

The experts have long been hoping and looking for clear signs of risky behavior of people who commit suicide.

Scientists from Harvard University report has made a tool that can be widely used to investigate the subconscious mind of people who intend to commit suicide. This of course can provide its own intervention to get someone to survive.

Psychology scientist Matthew Nock and Mahzarin Banaji and her colleagues from Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, decided to create a test called the implicit Association Test (IAT), which gives warning signs of suicide.

"This tool is to see whether the people who want to commit suicide may have had a strong implicit between him and death, so we get a relationship that leads to self-destructive purposes," says the author, is quoted from the Huffington Post, Wednesday (19 / 5 / 2010).

To determine this, researchers involved 157 people who were doing treatment at a psychiatric emergency room. These participants have a deep emotional sadness, but only a few people who had tried to commit suicide. IAT tool is later to see if there is a difference between people who had attempted suicide with a no.

IAT is a test of reaction time, ie how quickly the patient to classify the words on a computer screen, such as die, grow, die, survive, breathe, and so forth.

Based on this research ever known someone who attempted suicide have a subconscious relationship much stronger between him and death. These results have been reported in the journal Psychological Science.

But this research has not been completed, Nock and his colleagues continue to follow participants for six months to see how his life.

Patients found to have the test results strongly associated with the death of six-fold increase in suicide attempts. This subconscious relationship can predict suicide is stronger than intuition, because this desire is already in the person's brain.

There are two kinds of suicidal behavior is suicidal behavior egoalien namely that felt strange and less in place, as well as suicidal behavior egosintonik ie it is consistent with himself.

Care in people who have the desire to commit suicide is to give attention and enthusiasm for life by those around him like family or close friends.

The desire to commit suicide can be triggered by many factors, such as severe depression, high stress pressure that must be faced in life or work, unable to fight chronic illnesses that had lasted longer or had the thought that he was no longer useful for life.