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Symptoms Cont.
- Talking or joking about suicide. Statements about being reunited
with a deceased loved one.
- Statements about hopelessness, helplessness, or worthlessness.
Example: "Life is useless." "Everyone would be
better off without me." "It doesn't matter. I won't be
around much longer anyway." "I wish I could just
disappear."
- Preoccupation with death. Example: recurrent death themes in
music, literature, or drawings. Writing letters or leaving notes
referring to death or "the end".
Suddenly happier or calmer.
- Loss of interest in things one cares about.
- Unusual visiting or calling people one cares about - saying their
good-byes.
- Giving possessions away, making arrangements, setting one's affairs
in order.
- Self-destructive behavior (alcohol/drug abuse, self-injury or
mutilation, promiscuity).
- Risk-taking behavior (reckless driving/excessive speeding,
carelessness around bridges, cliffs or balconies, or walking in front
of traffic).
- Having several accidents resulting in injury. Close calls or
brushes with death.
- Obsession with guns or knives.
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