THE END OF LIFE CHOICE REFERENDUM - 3

 2.     ACUTE SUICIDALITY

This term generally refers to a person who was fine until a certain time and had no risk of suicide. They then suffer from acute mental illness, for example depression, and develop suicidal thoughts and are at risk of suicide. Once their acute mental illness is treated, their risk of suicide goes away.

 

3.     CHRONIC SUICIDALITY


This type of suicidal risk is most commonly associated with adverse childhood experiences (ACE), which may range in severity from chronic invalidating experiences and unduly harsh or erratic parenting, to long-term childhood sexual abuse. As a result of such childhood trauma, the victims sometimes develop chronic low mood, chronic low self-esteem, and chronic suicidal thoughts, depending on some genetic risk and temperamental factors. 

 

Medications and treatments modalities involving coercion and compulsion are almost completely useless in treating chronic suicidality. However, a number of people do respond, some very well, to psychotherapy with both a trauma focus, as well as skills-based therapies which teach sufferers how to cope with long-term negative feelings and thoughts arising as a result of such trauma. However, many victims of ACEs can get better without any treatment, as a result of changes in life circumstances for example developing a new long-term stable relationship.


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