The following questions are related to ‘Suicide’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: My brother married a woman about 12 years ago who has never really warmed up to our family. She was raised an only child in a rich household that did not reach manners, responsibility or morals. Her mother is emotionally damaging and it has spilled into her adult life. She is verbally abusive to [...]
Q: I’m really in need of some help. In February 2007, I had a terrible reaction to some cannabis I had smoked to try and help me recover from a traumatic time I was having. I haven’t smoked since, and it wasn’t hard to give up as I wasn’t exactly a recreational user. I have [...]
Q: I was raised by a heroin addict and a paranoid, delusional mother. They beat and verbally abused me constantly. My mother said “you deserve it. You’re possessed!” My father never hit her, just me. She told me that she knows how to beat me without leaving marks. She made me drink turpentine with sugar [...]
Q: I was diagnosed yesterday by a doctor as having a personality disorder because I get severe impulses wanting to kill myself! I am on a waiting list to see a psychologist who will help me try and deal with these impulses because I am always in and out of hospital. Is there anything in [...]
Q: How to treat a patient with depressive episodes and suicidal thoughts? A: In brief: Help the patient recognize the symptoms of depression. Discuss the symptoms at length with the patient and assure them that depression is a stress-produced brain chemistry issue — not their fault and not due to their behavior. Educate the patient [...]
Q: Is prefaring to be dead rather then alive, but not planning on taking any traumatic questions considered being suicidal? –A.B. A: Actually, those thoughts are one step above having suicidal thoughts. When we become depressed, our brain torments us with a variety of horrible thoughts. They begin as discouraging thoughts, move to thoughts of [...]
Q: I suppose this is a question with multiple facets to it. Can a 3-year-old child be suicidal? The parent is insisting the child is suicidal due to the child’s father’s illness which included a 6 week coma of the father — doctors not allowing the child to see its father during this time period. [...]
