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Mental pain and its communication in medically serious suicide attempts: an “impossible situation”

Levi, Yossi, Horesh, Netta, Fischel, Tzvi, Treves, Ilan, Or, Evgenia, Apter, Alan·2008·Journal of Affective Disorders

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Background The study of near-fatal suicide attempters may provide insight into the minds of suicidal subjects. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that mental pain is a general risk factor for suicidal behavior and communication difficulties are a particular risk factor for medically serious suicidal behavior.Methods Thirty five subjects who made medically serious suicide attempts were compared with 67 medically not serious suicide attempters and 71 healthy controls. All were interviewed with the SCID-I and completed questionnaires covering mental pain, communication difficulties and seriousness of suicide attempt.Result Variables from the mental pain domain (e.g. depression) predicted the presence of suicidal behavior, and variables from the communication difficulties domain (e.g., self-disclosure) predicted the lethality and seriousness of the suicide attempts.Limitations Relatively small number of patients with medically serious suicide attempt and the relatively large number of questionnaires which may to some extent have diminished informant reliability.Conclusions Problems with sharing of feelings with others are an important risk factor for near-lethal suicide, over and above the contribution of psychiatric illness and mental pain, including depression and hopelessness.

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Authors
Levi, Y., Horesh, N., Fischel, T., Treves, I., Or, E., & Apter, A.
Affiliations
  • Tel Aviv University (IL)
  • Bar-Ilan University (IL)
  • Lev Hasharon Hospital (IL)
Corresponding author
Levi, Yossi
Venue
Journal of Affective Disorders
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-12
Volume
111
Issue
2-3
Pages
244-250
ISSN
0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2116196296
Cited by
125
References
37
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Keywords
suicide attempts, psychological suffering, communication difficulties, self-disclosure, depression, hopelessness, suicide risk factors, lethality, suicidal behavior
MeSH terms
Adult, Affective Symptoms, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Attitude to Health, Depression, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Life Change Events, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Psychological, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Self Disclosure, Suicide, Attempted, Control Groups, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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