By: Tarun Mendoza Samuel Jimenez Daisy Jimenez Luis

1. Suicide Prevention By: Tarun Mendoza Samuel Jimenez Daisy Jimenez Luis

2. The Following Risk Factors Have Been Associated With Suicidal Behavior • Current/pending disciplinary or legal action • Relationship problems • Substance abuse • Financial problems • Work related problems • Transitions • A serious medical problem

3. The Following Risk Factors Have Been Associated With Suicidal Behavior • Significant loss • Setbacks • Severe, prolonged, and/or perceived unmanageable stress • A sense of powerless, helplessness, and/or hopelessness • Presence of a weapon in the home • History of previous suicide attempts

4. Statistics • Every 13.7 seven minutes, someone dies from suicide. • Every 60 seconds, someone attempts suicide.

5. Other Statistics • 90% of people who die by suicide have diagnosable ad treatable psychiatric disorder at the time of their death. • Men are nearly four times more likely to die by suicide than women. Women attempt suicide three times as often as men. • Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for adults between ages eighteen and sixty-five in the United States • Everyday, about one-hundred and five Americans die from suicide. • Suicide is the third leading cause in death among those fifteen to twenty-four years old in the United States

6. Other Causes of Suicide • Depression • Alcohol • Firearms • Medical illness

7. If you are thinking of suicide… “Suicide is a permanent solution to a problem that is temporary.”

8. Don’t just let situations go unnoticed… • If someone is experiencing one of these possible warnings of suicide, talk to the person and seek professional assistance, if needed. • Nothing is more important than saving a life.

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