Clinical Views on Suicide

Suicide is a dangerous clinical event causing 1.5 to 2% of human mortality.

Due to its inherent danger to life and complexity, suicide studies are in high demand. Many resources have been allocated to the development of predicting suicides, its prevention and useful medical interventions so that biomedical and scientific study of the subject is indispensable.

Historically, knowledge of suicide was largely based on mental illness studies.

The causal factors of human suicide are arguable and remain widely disagreed upon. Currently, neuro-psychiatric factors are recognized as one of the main culprits for human suicide events and mortality.

From a diagnostic point of view, the symptoms of risk of human suicide (feeling of hopelessness, self-blame, and so on) are similar to those of mood disorders such as hopelessness and helplessness.

Clinical approaches to suicide explore: 

• Genetic and epigenetic factors

• Mental illness pathology and evolution of diagnostics from history

• Toxicity of antidepressants

• Neuropathy

• Therapeutic study and drug development