Why more men are likely to commit suicide than women – Neuropsychiatrist
Onyedika, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria , in Abuja on Saturday, defined suicide as an act of intentionally causing one’s own death.
Onyedika noted that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death globally, with approximately 12 in 100,000 people deliberately ending their own lives. Onyedika said though a significant number of people who often commit suicide might not necessarily have been depressed for a while; they could have suffered very disgraceful events of life and incurred shame and loss of their self-dignity.
“Another noteworthy cause of completed suicide is auditory hallucinations, which are voices of unseen persons, which sometimes instruct victims to go and kill themselves by various means. Onyedika listed other signs of suicidal persons as loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities and loss of appetite.
The Neuropsychiatrist said further that many victims of suicide had in one way or the other expressed their suicidal intents to their close friends, as well as on the social media, but were not taken seriously.“Was there something I could have done? I should have seen it coming, are common words expressed by close friends and relatives of victims after the attempted or completed suicide.
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