Depression can interfere with your daily functioning in school, your relationships with friends and family, your eating and sleeping habits, and your enjoyment of life. Suicide and depression can be related. Suicidal tendencies can range from thoughts or threats of suicide to an actual attempt to kill oneself, which can sometimes end in death. Being depressed doesn’t mean you are actually suicidal even if you have thoughts or feelings of suicide. (On the other hand, not all suicidal people are depressed).
Although most people who are depressed do not kill themselves, untreated depression can increase the risk of possible suicide. It is not uncommon for depressed individuals to have thoughts about suicide whether or not they intend to act on these thoughts. Severely depressed people often do not have the energy to harm themselves, but it is when their depression lifts and they gain increased energy that they may be more likely to attempt suicide.
Suicide is deliberately killing yourself. A young person might attempt suicide for many different reasons including major life changes, depression, pressure to succeed both with friends and at school, meaningful loss, family or peer problems, social disadvantage, and low self–esteem.
Most suicidal youth don’t want to die, but they have too much emotional pain to cope
with alone and don’t think anyone can help. Most suicidal youth want to be stopped from killing themselves. They can be helped by professionals and others to find better ways to deal with their pain.
The warning signs of suicide are pretty common. They overlap the warning signs of depression. Suicides rarely happen without warning. The more you are aware, the better you can recognize and help a person in crisis. Watch for physical, emotional, spiritual and behavioral changes. Listen...and trust your instincts.
What is not commonly known is that Suicidal thoughts are an involuntary affliction! We don't choose to think them. Suicidal thoughts just enter; they just come into your mind on their own.
And they don't just sit there…
Suicidal thoughts are VERY ACTIVE and have tremendous emotional power! They push you, urge you, and compel you towards suicide.
Untreated Depression is a major cause of suicide.
If people could stop depression or feel better just by will or positive thinking, they would. Without the right brain chemistry, a person can be physically incapable of forming a positive thought or stopping the assault of suicidal thoughts in the mind
Also, if someone who has been depressed and with suicidal thoughts suddenly seems happier do not assume that the danger has passed. A person, having decided to end his or her life, may "feel better," may feel a sense of relief having made this decision.
