Mental Illness And Suicide Research Paper
Completed Suicide
Completed Suicide and Psychiatric Diagnoses in Young People: A Critical Examination of the Evidence Class: Psychology 101 Date: 09/28/2008
Intro It is time for us to understand the function of specific mental disorders and their relative importance. Death committed suicide is a problem worldwide. In the study done by the World Health Organization, authors looked at the published English research. In this process psychiatric retrace the presence and the distribution of mental disorders in cases of young people who have killed themselves all over the world. In this study they paid close attention to the different reasons why young people get to commit suicide. At the top …show more content…
In most of the cases the people who have committed suicide were under the age of 20. About 72% were up to 21 years old, 12.3% were between the ages of 20-29. After they completed their test, the authors realized that mood disorder 42%, substance-related disorder and disruptive behavior disorders were the three most common symptoms among the young people who have committed suicide. In two other study done by Groholt, Ekeberg, 1996 by looking at 240 cases in all of the cases that they analyzed mood disorders was strongly present even though sometimes it was attributed with another symptoms. When they wanted to focus on gender the authors information from the five studies that was performed by (Apter et al...1993; Asgard, 1990; Groholt et al..1997; Martunen, Aro, Henriksson, & Lonvist, 1991; Shaffer et al..1996). When after analyzing the information that they have collected, they concluded that mood disorders and other DSM Axis I were more common among women. One of the possible reasons like they explain it was that it may have been due to the fact that women are more likely to suffer from eating …show more content…
As their subjects the authors used young people from different part of the world. The people that they chose were between the ages from 15-30 years old. In their study they used public record documents as well as interview along with documentaries that they did with the relatives and friends of the victims. The result that they found was that mental disorders was not the only cause of death related suicide among young people. Because Mood disorder along with disruptive behavior disorder also played a big role in the death related suicide among young people. But in my point of view, I can say that this study was very confusing. The reason why I say that is because that to me did not really focus on one particular subject or area. When I first started reading the journal, it was interesting because at the beginning they were talking about how mental disorder is the primary cause of death related suicide around the world. But when I got to the middle of the article I was
Completed Suicide and Psychiatric Diagnoses in Young People: A Critical Examination of the Evidence Class: Psychology 101 Date: 09/28/2008
Intro It is time for us to understand the function of specific mental disorders and their relative importance. Death committed suicide is a problem worldwide. In the study done by the World Health Organization, authors looked at the published English research. In this process psychiatric retrace the presence and the distribution of mental disorders in cases of young people who have killed themselves all over the world. In this study they paid close attention to the different reasons why young people get to commit suicide. At the top …show more content…
In most of the cases the people who have committed suicide were under the age of 20. About 72% were up to 21 years old, 12.3% were between the ages of 20-29. After they completed their test, the authors realized that mood disorder 42%, substance-related disorder and disruptive behavior disorders were the three most common symptoms among the young people who have committed suicide. In two other study done by Groholt, Ekeberg, 1996 by looking at 240 cases in all of the cases that they analyzed mood disorders was strongly present even though sometimes it was attributed with another symptoms. When they wanted to focus on gender the authors information from the five studies that was performed by (Apter et al...1993; Asgard, 1990; Groholt et al..1997; Martunen, Aro, Henriksson, & Lonvist, 1991; Shaffer et al..1996). When after analyzing the information that they have collected, they concluded that mood disorders and other DSM Axis I were more common among women. One of the possible reasons like they explain it was that it may have been due to the fact that women are more likely to suffer from eating …show more content…
As their subjects the authors used young people from different part of the world. The people that they chose were between the ages from 15-30 years old. In their study they used public record documents as well as interview along with documentaries that they did with the relatives and friends of the victims. The result that they found was that mental disorders was not the only cause of death related suicide among young people. Because Mood disorder along with disruptive behavior disorder also played a big role in the death related suicide among young people. But in my point of view, I can say that this study was very confusing. The reason why I say that is because that to me did not really focus on one particular subject or area. When I first started reading the journal, it was interesting because at the beginning they were talking about how mental disorder is the primary cause of death related suicide around the world. But when I got to the middle of the article I was