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Suicide as a Response to Trauma

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For individuals without pre-existing medical or psychiatric issues, trauma is highly correlated to depressive and/or anxious symptoms, withdrawal, and most notably suicidal ideations or attempts. For those with existing medical conditions such as mood or anxiety disorders, suicidal ideations or attempt, the correlation with trauma significantly increases. While there are several demographic and medical factors that contribute to suicide risk, history of trauma is one of the most significant and thoroughly studied. The most common forms of trauma include: physical or sexual abuse, physical injury, or witnessing physical violence or death. For purposes of this article, trauma will follow DSM-5 Criterion A, experiencing or exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence either personally, or witnessing/experiencing vicariously by retelling. This paper will explore the relationship between known forms of trauma: physical, sexual, and vicarious trauma. We will also explore culturally based trauma such as hate crimes, and large-scale generational trauma and historic trauma .

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Salman, N.A., Camit, C.J., Bongar, B. (2017). Suicide as a Response to Trauma. In: Kumar, U. (eds) Handbook of Suicidal Behaviour. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4816-6_7

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