hospitals and suicide

[Deleted member 1768]

http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Misc/PsychiatricTreatmentAndSuicide(2014).pdf

 

[arelia]

It's a damning meta analysis that doesn't surprise me in the least but saddens me that there have been so many lives lost.

 

[Deleted member 1768]

It's a damning meta analysis that doesn't surprise me in the least but saddens me that there have been so many lives lost.

This is even more telling.

Left Hanging: Suicide in Bridgend – Dr. David Healy

Many people are unaware of just how many prescription drugs can trigger and cause suicide, suicidal acts and homicide.

davidhealy.org

 

[SinisterKid]

Psych wards are enough to make anyone suicidal, let alone the ones suffering poor mental health and the like. The most boring places on earth imo.

Have you ever been to Bridgend? Prospects there are bleak at the best of times. South Wales on the whole has suffered badly in the last 2 recessions.

 

[Rocksandsand]

Fuck me, that's a massive correlation. And in my experience at least, it's damningly accurate. I've had one psych admission, four ED visits related to suicide attempts or suicidality. And now I have just given up on the whole charade. 'Help' is just containment or medications that don't work in the vast majority of cases. There's some meta analyses that rip antidepressants to shreds (about an 11 - 13% efficacy rating after a year of treatment). Right now I am putting myself in a self-made version of mental health palliative care. Just using drugs to make myself comfortable until I CtB.

 

[arelia]

This is even more telling.

Left Hanging: Suicide in Bridgend – Dr. David Healy

Many people are unaware of just how many prescription drugs can trigger and cause suicide, suicidal acts and homicide.

davidhealy.org

Prescription drug side effects are why I'm here, I had an antibiotic resistant infection and the only drug they could use had suicide ideation as a side effect. Until the drugs wore off once I'd finished taking them I ended up going down rabbit holes on the internet and seeing stuff that still gives me flashbacks, on top of that I'd read all the books on the reading list and inspected my house, worked out the best place to die and had imagined how it would happen. That was from a one week course of antibiotics with the side effect kicking in around day 3.
I'll file the information away for when it's time but my sympathy goes out to everyone who is taking long term drugs that trigger it - there's no easy escape and it's not fair that the medical profession ignores the very real threat to life that these drugs bring.

 

[Deleted member 1768]

Fuck me, that's a massive correlation. And in my experience at least, it's damningly accurate. I've had one psych admission, four ED visits related to suicide attempts or suicidality. And now I have just given up on the whole charade. 'Help' is just containment or medications that don't work in the vast majority of cases. There's some meta analyses that rip antidepressants to shreds (about an 11 - 13% efficacy rating after a year of treatment). Right now I am putting myself in a self-made version of mental health palliative care. Just using drugs to make myself comfortable until I CtB.

Class-action lawsuit comes to mind...pharmaceutical companies and the 'opiod crisis'...anti-depressants and suicide.