Suicide

Introduction: Suicide

Suicide: Taking one's own life or attempting to do so. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Suicide is available below.

Symptoms of Suicide

• Suicidal thoughts
• Thoughts of death
• Talking about suicide
• Hopelessness
• Helplessness

See full list of 7 symptoms of Suicide

Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Suicide:

• Mental Health: Home Testing:
  • Home Emotional Stress Tests

Medical Textbooks Online about Suicide

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Wrongly Diagnosed with Suicide?

• Misdiagnosis of Suicide
• Failure to diagnose Suicide
• Underlying causes of Suicide (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Failure to diagnose Suicide

Misdiagnosis and Suicide

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Causes of Suicide

Read more about causes of Suicide.

More information about causes of Suicide:

• Suicide as a complication caused by other conditions
• Suicide as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Suicide
• Cause statistics for Suicide

Videos for Suicide

Patient Surveys for Suicide

• Patient Profile Survey
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• Survey about the symptoms of your Suicide
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Prognosis for Suicide

More about prognosis of Suicide

Reseach about Suicide

Visit our research pages for current research about Suicide treatments.

Clinical Trials for Suicide

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Suicide include:

• Cognitive Aspects of Adolescent Suicide - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Youth-Nominated Support Team Intervention for Suicidal Adolescents - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Cognitive Therapy for Suicidal Older Men in Primary Care Settings - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Effectiveness of Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Attempters With Drug Dependence Disorder - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Prevention of Suicide in Primary Care Elderly: Collaborative Trial (PROSPECT) - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

See full list of 22 Clinical Trials for Suicide

Statistics for Suicide

• Medical statistics for Suicide
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Suicide
• Death and Mortality statistics for Suicide
• Society statistics for Suicide

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User Interactive Forums

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Definitions of Suicide:

Suicide is the act of ending one's own life. (from Wikipedia) - (Source - Diseases Database)

The act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide" - (Source - WordNet 2.1)