t.Does talking about suicide encourage it? Talking about the feelings surrounding suicide promotes understanding and can greatly reduce the immediate distress of suicidal person. In particular, it is OK to ask someone if they are considering suicide, if you suspect that they are not coping. If they are feeling suicidal, it can come as a great relief to see that someone else has some insight into how they feel.There are some sorts of things that can contribute to someone feeling suicidal. Like people can usually deal with isolated stressful or traumatic events and experience reasonably well. But where there is an accumulation of such events over an extended period, our normal coping strategies can be pushed to the limit. The stress or trauma generated by a given event will vary from person to person depending on their background and how they deal with that particular stressor. Some people are personally more or less vulnerable to a particular stressful events and some people may find certain events stressful which others would see as a positive experience. Furthermore, individuals deal with stress and trauma in different ways; the presence of multiple risk factors does not necessarily imply that a person will become suicidal. Depending on a person’s individual response, risk factors that may contribute to a person feeling suicidal include:-Significant changes in: -Relationships -Well being of self or family member -Body image -Job, school, university, house, locality -Financial situation -World environment -Significant losses: -Death of a loved one -Loss of valued relationship -Loss of self esteem or personal expectations -Loss of employment -Perceived abuse: -Physical -Emotional/Psychological ...
