"Contest Alert !!! || "Suicide is the Last Solution".

Myself @aspiya From #Bangladesh

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Greetings Splendid Individuals

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Today, I am here to take part in an interesting contest in the Steem For Pakistan community initiated by @abdullahw2. This contest raises the crucial question “Is Suicide the Last Solution?” The contest is intended to raise a conversation about suicidal tendencies and stress the need to seek help in moments of hopelessness. By so doing, it is our intention to educate as well as inform society and help those who possibly suffer from such thoughts.

What are the main factors that lead individuals to view suicide as a solution?

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Several intricate aspects can make a person solve his or her problems by committing suicide and these conditions may be interrelated in a very complicated manner to make a person develop hopelessness and despair.

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🔹Mental Health Disorders: Some of the severe mental illnesses include depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia among others and these illnesses cause individuals to feel worthy of nothing and in extreme feelings of hopelessness and sadness, dying appears to be the only way out.

🔹Traumatic Experiences: Traumatic events at home, at school, or with peers could include physical or sexual abuse, the loss of a loved one, serious illness, or exposure to violence makes people develop emotional losses that result to helplessness.

🔹Social Isolation: Social isolation leads to basic feelings of despair, resulting in loneliness. Lack of companionship arising from the loss of loved ones; having no friends; nervousness in social places, harassment or prejudice can really drain a human being’s morale.

🔹Substance Abuse: Harmful properties of any substance and alcohol cause shifts in the psychological state of a person, and can end in reckless actions – their life puts an end to through a suicide. Thus, addiction to drugs results in development of dependency and consequent despair.

🔹Chronic Pain and Illness: Living with chronic physical pain and terminal illnesses that may pose unbearable and unendurable sufferings, some patients think of ending life from as it may offer them a reprieve from their pains and perceived poor quality of life.

🔹Financial and Occupational Stress: Stress can be financial related such as debts or unemployment and the pressures that come with a job can make an individual have anxieties that make suicide seem like a relief.

🔹Stigma and Barriers to Seeking Assistance: Lack of understanding and awareness of mental health and its disorders also play a significant role in people not seeking help. Lack of confidence to seek professional help or being rejected from clinical trials can make them feel that nobody will get them.

These factors can be effectively dealt by mental health care, social support, and awareness so that the required help can be provided to the individuals before they turn up to be homicidal maniacs or suicidal eaters.

What role can mental health education play in preventing suicide?

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Mental health education is important in reducing suicide because it ensures people learn about the condition, lessen the perceived stigma associated with it, and talk to people regarding mental health and any related disorders. It offers ways of dealing with specific stressful situations, helps develop better stress-handling skills, builds understanding of other people as well as of self, acknowledges familiarities with mental disorders, and familiarizes the participants with the existing resources and how to obtain them. All in all, it ensures that persons and communities are able to act in ways that are preventive to mental issues and in effect, save lives.

How will you motivate a person to prevent him from suicidal thoughts?

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In my opinion, motivating a person to prevent suicidal thoughts involves several key approaches:

🔹Listen and Show Empathy: Just join the person through common conversations and do not argue, call them ill, or give them an immediate prescriptive advice.

🔹Offer Reassurance: Make them settle down and in the process make them be comfortable with the following assurance; first, let them know that it is okay to feel that or this or the other way.

🔹Encourage Professional Help: It is advisable to turn to a therapist or a counselor since they will be able to assist, in this case.

🔹Stay Connected: Often visit them to let them know they’re not the only ones, this is very important.

🔹Promote Positive Activities: Help them participate in things they like or help them to do things that will, in one way or another, relax them.

🔹Highlight Their Importance: Recall to them how important they are, how valuable, and how much they mean to the people whose lives they touch.

If we can tell a man or woman you are not alone we are here to support you so that you can seek help, If you need help then you can get help, then it will encourage the person to go seek help where he or she thinks life is not worth living.

Describe a time when someone overcame suicidal thoughts and found new purpose in life.

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One instance I can recount is when one of my close friends was battling severe depression and suicidal tendencies after losing her job and going through a messy breakup. She completely lost all her hope, felt so lonely because she thought there is no solution. Luckily she sought help and began to see a therapist. In therapy, she discovered gradually such things that she never considered as her interests and capabilities before. She found her passion in painting, thus she could express herself through the art of painting. bit by bit she began the task of starting her life over, re-establishing a sense in life for herself in her painting and beginning a small business. What I learnt from her is that no matter how bad things are, seeking help and finding new passions can get one a fresh hope for the future.

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I would like to invite my friends @chiagoziee, @anthony002, @zulay7059,@comfortpeter,@betsay, and @jovita30to participate in this contest

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