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 INTRODUCTION
The suicide is the second cause of mortality in the adolescence. The psychiatric problems are more frequent than we think, they affect 10 - 15 % of the population. The most related to the suicide are the depression, the bipolar disorder, disorder of conduct and schizophrenia. In fact, between 0,4 and 8,3 % of the adolescents suffer depression, number that doubles in the feminine sex, circumstance that the professionals attribute to biological and psychosocial factors that happen in the girls with the puberty.
The adolescents experience strong feelings of stress, confusion, doubts about himself, pressure to achieve the success, financial worries and other fears while they are growing. Some professionals make sure that the suicide or tries that happen in the infancy happen in families desestructuradas, while the adolescents who choose for this option usually endure depression.
The depression and the suicidal tendencies can be treated, for it if suspicion exists or the enclosed adolescent has threatened to commit a suicidal act, the family has to request professional help. The boy or girl has to feel that someone worries for him.
FACTORS OF RISK
- Familiar problems.
- Strict parents.
- Loss of a progenitor.
- Familiar precedents.
- Depression.
- Scarce self-control.
- Rigid, obsessive thought and dicotomizado (extremist).
- Negative attitude.
- Consumption of alcohol or drugs.
- Stress.
- Scarce future expectations.
TYPICAL OF THE SUICIDAL ADOLESCENT
- Changes of habits in sleeping and in eating.
- Friends' shyness, family or habitual activities.
- Violent acts, rebellious behavior.
- Self-destructive conducts.
- Slightly usual abandonment of his physical appearance.
- Changes pronounced in his personality.
- Persistent boredom, make difficult to concentrate.
- Frequent physical complaints like fatigue, stomachache...
- Few praises tolerance.
- To complain about believing bad person or "horrible" person.
- To throw innuendoes as "Soon I will stop bothering".
- To clear up in his matters like giving valuable possessions or doing exhaustive roles cleanliness.
- To become very satisfied after a depression period.
WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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