Enclosure (3) to COMDTINST 1734.1
SUICIDE SYMPTOMS
CAUSES
HOW TO RESPOND
CLUES
Loss of:
Almost no one commits suicide
1.
Act immediately
1. Sense of permanence--moving
without allowing his or her feelings
2.
Get help--professional
location
present clues. Displaying a group
therapist, physician, clergy,
2. Family structure through death
of these clues signals danger
family
of relative or friend
1. Anxiety
3. Be a friend--stay close,
3. Security--job, income or
2. Teariness
genuinely care
business
3. Lethargy
4. Arrange social contact with
4. Health
4. Inability to concentrate
others-
5. Self-confidence and self-
5. Unresponsiveness
5. Talk out person's feelings,
respect
6. Uninterested
take them seriously
6. Love--break-up of marriage or
7. Withdrawal from family, friends
6. Encourage complete medical
friendship
8. Contemplative
evaluation
7. Comfort
9. Aches, pains
7. Do not argue, judge or advise
8. Power or position
10. Numerous headaches
8. Reassure that situation can
9. Potency (sexual)
11. Loss of appetite
change
10. Attractiveness--limb, breast
12. Loss of weight
9. Induce fatigue, relaxation,
11. Dwelling on losses
13. Impotency or lacking sexual
sleep through activity
12. Overwhelmed by losses interest
14. Uncommunicative
10. Don't analyze or try to reason
13. Failure in occupation society
15. Insomnia
11. Do not act shocked
14. Disappointment accomplishment
16. Sleeping more
12. Ask questions about suicide
15. Depression--exaggerated in
17. Making a will, taking out
plans--method available,
intensity and duration
weapon,
16. Incapable of normal functioning
18. Reviewing finances
17. Loneliness-feeling of isolation
19. Giving away possessions
18. Old age
20. Convinced of illness,
19. Pain
malignancy
20. Alcohol or drug abuse
21. Depression, rejection
21. Believes situation is permanent
22. Possess weapon, drugs
22. Delusions, hallucinations
23. Change in behavior or
longer," "I'm no good to
personality
anyone,"
24. Threatening statements--"I have
23. Desires to escape or avoid
nothing to live for,"
punishment, and turmoil, gain
"You won't have to put up with
attention, martyr, punish
me much longer," "I'm no good
survivors, get revenge,
to anyone," "I might as well
manipulate others, join a
be dead, "etc.
deceased loved one, control own
death
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