HELL, no (what NOT to do)

(RIZEL)
"Thou shall not kill" and more importantly thou shall not kill thyself.
Last September 10 we celebrated the World's Suicide Prevention Day and as a way to support the call to prevent suicide all over the globe, I offer this blog to the readers.
In one of the lectures of a major subject in Psychology, my professor cited some symptoms that a person might be suicidal. It's important for us to know these things so that we can have the capacity to know when a friend of ours or maybe a close person to us might be suicidal. We might be able to help them.
Here goes Ma’am Morales’ lecture:
 The behavioral cues include talking about hopelessness and worthlessness
 Talking about “taking a trip” “going away”
 Giving possessions with sentimental value like heirlooms or even simple things like photos and blankies
 Having a plan
 Decreased performance level socially or even at work
 Upsurge of self-destructive behaviors

Most of the time, the people vulnerable to suicide are;
 Separated, divorced, widowed
 High and medium SES
 Dentists
 Physicians

Now, it's time to see suicide based on the results of different psychological researches.
Sometimes, it’s hard to know who is a suicidal. This is because they often deny and hide their suicidal thoughts (Cha et.al., 2010). The researchers then devised a way to somehow predict suicidal behaviors even when faced with the dilemma that suicidals often hide these feelings of hurting themselves. In their study wherein they showed participants words including suicide-related words/ stimuli, they concluded that “suicide attempters showed an attentional bias toward suicide-related words relative to neutral words, and this bias was strongest among those who had made a more recent attempt”. This finding can also become a behavioral cue to know who are the people exposed to suicidal risk and as Cha, et.al. (2010) say, this can improve clinical work on suicide-related outcomes.

National crises in different forms can also affect suicide rates and suicide tactics. This was shown by a study done by Fajkic, et.al. (2010) in Bosnia and Herzegovina using records from 1992-1995 after the war. They saw that before the war, adolescent suicides were done by hanging, and was change to firearms after the war. Suicide rates were also founded out to be lower after the war. The researchers suggest a more careful way of handling firearms in households and raising more awareness in suicidal behaviors and risks.
Also, Ventrice et.al., (2010) “suggest that direct exposure to suicidal behavior may leave engrams (memory traces) that increase an individual’s susceptibility to suicidal behavior.”
In addition to these, Kolves (2010) also cited the following in her Editorial entry “Child Suicide, Family Environment and Economic Crisis”;
 Parent-child conflicts
 divorce and stepparent (Pelkonen & Marttunen, 2003; Samm et al., 2010)
 family history of mental heath problems (King, 2009)
 economic my have an impact on recession may have on morbidity (Catalano,2009; Uutela, 2010), mortality (Simms, 2009), and, more specifically, suicide (Gunnell, Platt, & Hawton, 2009)

So what am gonna do with this, you ask? Well, tell your friends about it and of course remember that life is beautiful and suicide is never an option. So if ever this hellweek (or hellsem!) is killing you, please don’t literally, kill yourself. 
References:
Cha, C., Najmi, S., Park, J., Finn, C., & Nock, M. (2010). Attentional Bias Toward Suicide-Related Stimuli Predicts Suicidal Behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 119, No. 3, 616–622.
Fajkic, A., Lepara, O., Voracek, M., Kapusta, N., Niederkrotenthaler, T., Sonneck, G., & Dervic, K. Child and Adolescent Suicides in Bosnia and Herzegovina Before and after the War (1992-1995).Crisis 2010; Vol. 31(3):160–164.
Gunnell, D., Platt, S., & Hawton, K. (2009). The economic crisis and suicide. British Medical Journal, 338, 1456–1457.
King, R. A. (2009). Psychodynamic and family aspects of youth suicide. In D.Wasserman&C.Wasserman (Eds.), Oxford textbook of suicidology and suicide prevention. (pp. 643–651). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Catalano, R. (2009). Health, medical care, and economic crisis. New England Journal of Medicine, 360, 749–751.
Pelkonen, M., & Marttunen, M. (2003). Child and adolescent suicide: Epidemiology, risk factors, and approaches to prevention.Pediatric Drugs, 5, 243–265.
Samm, A., Tooding, L.-M., Sisask, M., Kõlves, K.,Aasvee, K.,&Värnik, A. (2010). Suicidal thoughts and depressive feelingsamong Estonian schoolchildren: Effect of family relationship and family structure. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 19, 457–468.
Simms, C. (2009). Economic crisis and mortality. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 63, 1119–1122.
Uutela, A. (2010). Economic crisis and mental health. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 23, 127–130.
Ventrice, D., Valach, L., Reisch, T., Michel, K. (2010). Suicide Attempters’ Memory Traces of Exposure to Suicidal Behavior: A Qualitative Pilot Study, Crisis 2010; Vol. 31(2):93–99.