Features of qualification of incitement to suicide

“Drive to suicide” is not the same as “kill”: these are two different crimes (albeit with one sad ending) and two different articles. In order to qualify an act under the article on incitement to suicide, you need to carefully consider the circumstances of the case: depending on the nuances, the actions of the “criminal” may not contain any corpus delicti at all.

But if they are still qualified as incitement to suicide, the severity of the punishment will also depend on who was incited to suicide, in what way, and so on.

In such matters, nuances are of great importance. If you suddenly become a suspect or accused in a similar case, then in order to collect the necessary evidence and prove your innocence, you cannot do without the help of an experienced defense lawyer.

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What is considered incitement to suicide?

This act can be carried out in different ways. The most common of them are the following:

• humiliation, ridicule and even beatings committed in public;
• suggestion of suicidal thoughts through video and audio with elements of hypnosis;
• blackmail;
• impending threat to loved ones;
• bullying;
• inclination to suicide through games;
• publication of compromising evidence on a virtual network, transfer to authorities, etc.

As you can see, you can push a person to commit suicide in different ways. Among them there are also those that can be almost impossible to prove in court proceedings. Therefore, some criminals resort to this method of “eliminating” a person. Statistics show that the largest number of people who are subjected to such provocations are teenagers. At this age, grown children have not yet had time to develop a stable psyche. Also included in the risk category are pensioners and business representatives.

Signs of impending suicide

There are two groups of suicides: true and demonstrative. The goal of the first is to complete one’s existence regardless of the situation, the opinions of others and the feelings of relatives. True suicide is always carefully prepared and planned. A person demonstratively kills himself not to die and end his torment, but to influence others. This is his way of asking for help and hoping for change. Suicide is committed emotionally, with strong nervous excitement.

Experiencing a complex of experiences, a person does not find a solution and sees death as the only way out. This is preceded by an emotional state that includes a feeling of helplessness, alienation (I am unpleasant to everyone and no one needs me), doom and personal insignificance. Dark and painful thoughts and feelings overcome a person. He begins to analyze the situation and prepare for suicide, selects a place, time, and method. Relevant searches in the Internet system or a farewell letter may be alarming.

Next, the suicide tries to complete things or put them in order: he sorts out documents, distributes debts, asks for forgiveness, thanks, and distributes things. The mood improves, a surge of energy appears, calmness appears - such an attitude against the backdrop of unresolved problems should be alarming. You can also observe a sharp change in behavior, increased passion for alcohol or drugs, frequent conversations about death, and insomnia.

Of course, the markers of impending suicide are different; you need to look at the totality of the above signs. This is the only way to predict the presence of suicidal intentions in advance.

Corpus delicti

As with any crime, the elements of incitement to suicide consist of:

• subject;
• object;
• subjective side;
• objective side.

In this case, the composition is material. The criminal law in the form of bringing the perpetrator to justice, whose sanity is not in doubt, comes into force when the crime is completed. And it is considered as such not only if the victim commits suicide, but also if he attempts it.

The object of the crime is human safety and life. Despite the statistics that provide for certain categories, the most common victims in this case can be different people.

A person who has reached the age of sixteen is the subject of a crime who faces the threat of this article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. When carrying out a criminal act, a person must be aware of its severity and socially dangerous nature.

The objective side may consist, for example, in threats, which can be different. Often these include the public dissemination of some data, for example, incriminating evidence or other information that a person would not want to disclose.

Another way is through cruel treatment that degrades dignity or causes physical and even mental suffering.

Methods of suicide. Suicide without rose-colored glasses

Methods of suicide - is it possible to leave gracefully?

(2nd version of article title)

Conclusion of linguistic expertise on this article.

This material is prepared exclusively for people who want to commit suicide. We strongly do not recommend reading this material to people with increased impressionability, as well as minors, pregnant women, and the sick.

Pathologists do not agree that a person is a single whole.

(Valentin Domil)

Some people may have the idea that suicide can be a beautiful or even heroic act. A person imagines how friends, relatives, and maybe enemies around a beautiful coffin will tear out their hair and sprinkle it with ashes from what they did not protect, did not preserve. And then, perhaps, they will remember him and grieve: “Why did the person die? What is our fault? Oh, what a tragedy!..” And the body itself will smell fragrant, and only a thin stream of blood from the corner of the lips will glamorously flow down the pale, beautiful face.

It's a pity for such people. They truly “don’t know what they are doing.” What actually happens is...

Poisoning

In 1944, the very famous thirty-six-year-old Hollywood actress Lupe Velez decided to commit suicide. A person of a creative profession, she wished to die beautifully at the height of her beauty and glory. She thought about it for a long time and decided to execute one beautiful scenario. Surrounding her bed with a sea of ​​fresh flowers, she washed herself for the last time, put on her favorite blue negligee, and then slowly washed down a bunch of pills she had prepared in advance with expensive cognac and lay down on a luxurious bed, awaiting the arrival of death.

But everything didn’t go according to script, as after a few minutes the body’s natural reaction to poisoning occurred and she began vomiting uncontrollably. Very quickly and a beautiful dress, and the floor under her bed was covered in vomit. Jumping from her bed, knocking over flowers, she quickly ran into the bathroom. There she slipped on the contents of her stomach and hit her head on an Egyptian onyx toilet, suffering severe injuries. She managed to kneel down in front of the toilet, but then lost consciousness and ended up choking on her own vomit. They found her all dirty, smelling terrible, and with her head in the toilet. After this, Hollywood finally realized that poisoning as a method of suicide is not at all aesthetic.

This case has a very characteristic picture for poisoning. No one can control the gag reflex, despite any measures to suppress it.

And specialist doctors are not always able to calculate all the nuances of the impact of a certain poison on the unique body of a particular person in order to achieve the desired result. Even a carefully calculated dose can give unpredictable results. So, don't try. Otherwise, like this actress, there is every chance of choking on your own vomit in agony, and, much more likely, you will remain disabled for the rest of your life.

If you are taken to the hospital, they will restrain you with towels after first stripping you naked. The spectacle is reminiscent of footage from the ward of a psychiatric hospital for violent people. The picture will be completed by tubes protruding from the mouth (after intubation of the trachea and insertion of the probe into the intestine), and the neck (after a tracheostomy - cutting the trachea).

The dying process can continue for several long and extremely painful days, during which the person will suffer wildly. He will undergo detoxification and washing, but the poison will continue to be absorbed by the body and perform its destructive effect in it. In this case, the gag reflex will not go away, and the dying person will lie tied up on a dirty bed.

If a suicide does die without waiting for help, then his loved ones will see a corpse with vomit in the hair, in feces, in corpse stains, with a characteristic fetid odor and signs of varying degrees of decomposition...

In general, the “beauty” is extraordinary. The dramatic effect that the suicide may have hoped for in his romantic illusions will be clearly blurred. It is naive to think that the person who finds this, will call an ambulance, help put the corpse in a bag, then drag it somewhere, will have some good memories of the suicide.

Hanging

The hanged men are also far from cute. And death, if it comes, will not be at all what it is imagined to be. After all, first a rather long agony will come, accompanied by convulsions, during which the hanged man will hit nearby objects, leaving bruises, abrasions, fractures, and bruises on the body. Only then will the sphincters of the anus and urethra open, and the entire contents of the intestines and bladder will rush under the hanging corpse, leaving him literally in the shit. There is a puddle under the corpse, on the corpse itself there are cadaveric spots, especially on the legs where the blood flows, a strangulation groove on the neck, and all this with the smell of an indescribable amber with the main note of shit.

On the corpse, after the blood flows from the head, where it created increased pressure during the agony, severe hematomas, hemorrhages in the subcutaneous tissue, pedicles of the pectoral muscles and neck muscles and, of course, cadaveric spots will most likely be found.

The corpse's neck is deformed due to a fractured vertebra. When examining the oral cavity, you can see the color of the mucous membranes, which has a rather creepy shade. But what scares people even more is the terrible grimace and eyes that often pop out of their sockets. Such a goggle-eyed corpse cannot be called cute.

And of course, the most characteristic detail of this method of suicide, one might say the highlight, is the blue tongue sticking out to the side, which in the morgue will simply be cut off and then stuffed into the stomach. Why in the stomach? Why sew it back? Corpses don't speak - they don't need language.

Jump from the window

After a jump, a person can turn into mincemeat. Although it is very likely that this jump will lead to a wheelchair. And maybe even to a plant existence until the end of days. There are no guarantees here.

Let's consider the first option. The “adventures” will begin while still in flight, when the suicide bomber, during a stepwise fall, will hit balconies, walls, trees, and other obstacles, leaving not only teeth, parts of clothing, but even body parts on them. When landing, the remaining teeth and body fragments may fly in all directions, and the ugly toothless mouth will fill with blood.

The bones that are broken by the blow will come out for others to see, and the brain, as the most saturated part of the body with water (90%), can first fly apart and then spread over a very long distance. The internal organs and their contents will fall out into dust and dirt along with the brains, which, of course, will not add romance to the surrounding landscape.

Children can see all this, and the sight of a corpse, blood, individual organs and viscera with their contents can cause irreparable harm to the psyche of children.

As usual, a crowd of people will gather at the corpse to discuss and judge. No one will admire your “feat”. And they will not be imbued with sympathy for the dead. The skull deformations will especially impress onlookers. I hit my head and I couldn’t tell where my nose was, where my eyes were, where my ears were.

In the morgue, it will be very difficult to give a believable outline to such a body. Reconstructing the human body so that it can be looked at without horror is a very expensive undertaking. So, if the relatives do not have a large amount of money, or the morgue does not have a professional of the appropriate level who has a great desire to reconstruct all this, then it is preferable to put the corpse in a bag, and the bag itself in a closed coffin, so as not to injure those present at the funeral.

Vein cutting

If someone suddenly thinks that he can romantically die by cutting his veins, then he must clearly understand that even if he manages to lose consciousness, agony will begin, convulsions will cramp his face, snot and drool will flow uncontrollably, and terrible sensations The suicidal person will be tormented for a long time. If this happened in the bath, then those who find this slobbering body will see an absolutely white corpse covered in blood, and due to the relaxation of the anal sphincters, also in their feces.

Naturally, if the act of suicide occurs in a warm room and in the summer season, then the picture will be “decorated” by numerous flies, as well as gigantism of the corpse, maceration and other changes that are characteristic of drowned people, if the corpse lies in the water for a sufficient time for the manifestation of these signs.

For those who come in, the sight is so shocking that all other methods of suicide simply pale in comparison to this picture! Pale abomination, stench, red water with floating clots of blood and feces...

It’s good that it’s not easy to kill yourself this way.

Drowning

The sight of a suicide who still managed to drown himself is terrible. The corpse usually floats to the surface after some time, which is due to rotting processes releasing gases, such as hydrogen sulfide. The surfaced body is usually much larger in volume (a giant corpse) and does not at all resemble a person during life. To say that the corpse of a drowned man looks terrifying is to say nothing. A huge corpse with altered proportions of face and body, often also swollen with gases, gnawed by fish and crayfish, covered in leeches, mud and algae, certainly looks terrible.

On it you can usually see cadaveric spots of a dark purple color, persistent white or light pink finely bubbled foam around the openings of the mouth and nose, maceration, that is, swelling, wrinkling and subsequent rejection of the skin from the body (“bath skin”, “washerwoman’s skin”, “glove of death”, “groomed hand”). The timing of the manifestation and development of maceration depends on the water temperature. For example, at a temperature of 14-16 °C it begins after 8 hours. That is, first from the fingers, then from the hands, and then from the rest of the body, pieces of skin begin to flake off and separate. And after 10-20 days, hair begins to fall out. So, if a dead body “manages” to swim so much, then it has a chance of going completely bald.

When in water, the corpse also becomes overgrown with algae. This is a cyclical process: the algae on the corpse is completely renewed every 3-4 weeks. It should also be said that after drowning, the body of a drowned person may be subject to further traumatization. The reasons leading to the occurrence of post-mortem injuries in water are very diverse: impacts on the ground, random objects and parts of water structures located in a reservoir, impacts from propellers, hydrofoils and other parts of ships, as well as injury from hooks and various improvised means used during searches. and removing the body from the water. But the greatest damage is usually caused by representatives of aquatic fauna: fish, crayfish, aquatic insects, leeches, etc.

In addition, forensic experts often find particles of silt, algae, and in the respiratory tract. And the venous system is filled with liquid blood with plankton in it (protozoa, some coelenterates, mollusks, crustaceans, eggs and larvae of fish, larvae of various invertebrate animals), which penetrate almost all tissues and organs. Plankton is also found in other internal organs (kidneys, spinal cord, etc.). It is the types of unicellular organisms, crustaceans and other representatives of the rich aquatic fauna found inside the body and their relative quantitative content that will indicate not only the fact of drowning, but also the specific body of water in which it occurred.

Pulling out and decorating such a corpse on the spot may please and even bring pleasure only to necrophiliacs.

And, of course, loading and taking away such a body, which often does not fit on a stretcher, is not a pleasant task for normal people, just like simply contemplating such a corpse. And even more so for those who will bury.

Headshot

When blood and brains flow down the wall or stick to the wall, and parts of the skull, fatty tissues and other pieces that used to make up the head are scattered around, then seeing this picture, and even more so a disfigured corpse, which may have missing teeth, and the incoming hole is significantly less than a huge one coming out, extremely unpleasant. This species traumatizes everyone, with the possible exception of forensic experts. It happens that pets (dogs, cats, etc.) cannot recognize the owner in such a disfigured form, and begin to taste him. A cat’s mouth smeared with blood after tasting its owner’s brains is also not a sight for the faint of heart. For example, one of the authors of the article saw a cat that tasted the contents of the skull of its owner, who ended his life with a shot in the head. Naturally, insects (cockroaches) and rodents (rats, mice) also do not refuse such a gift from a suicide.

A gunshot wound in the head area leads to almost complete disfigurement of the face, especially the orbital areas, due to the action of powder gases, practically tearing the head from the inside.

After being shot in the head, it is rarely possible to bury the body without causing confusion and horror to those present at the ceremony. If the skull was not damaged (which happens extremely rarely; more often the head generally flies apart), then you need to pay a very substantial sum to the pathologist so that he can give what remains after the shot a more or less similar appearance to the head. But, of course, even after this, the person lying in the coffin is not very charming.

The person who shoots at himself, in addition, creates a lot of problems for other people who will suffer undeservedly. Collecting parts of the head piece by piece in a plastic bag, and then removing and washing away the blood, mucus, and lymph will not be pleasant for them. In any case, there will be a serious investigation into where the weapons came from, and there will be no peace for the survivors.

There is one more feature. Firstly, people don't know where to shoot. Secondly, the skull is a pretty strong thing, and the bullet can change its direction. There is a high probability that the person will remain deeply disabled.

The reaction of others to the corpse

A separate conversation is about how others react to the spectacle of violent death. As we have already said, except for those who like to look at corpses, for everyone else the sight of the dead body of a suicide does not evoke pleasant sensations, but evokes the opposite, the mildest of which is disgust. The psyche of many people, especially children, who saw such terrible things, will be irreparably traumatized. Such pictures do not evoke sympathy for the suicide even among their loved ones.

Almost every presentation of such an incident is not complete without gossip, condemnation, moralizing from neighbors and random people.

So, if during your life you suffered from, as it seemed to you, unfair treatment towards yourself, from the fact that, in your opinion, you were not recognized or understood, then after such a terrible death it is unlikely that you will be treated better. Most likely, just the opposite, they will find confirmation of the validity of the attitude that existed.

The presentation of the incident also does not happen the same way as in the movies. To establish the time of death, a thermometer is inserted into the rectum of the corpse right at the scene. It is necessary to measure the temperature at least 2-3 times with an interval of 1 hour. All this time, the corpse lies on public display without underwear with a thermometer in the anus. At the same time, other places are also exposed, describing the damage on the suicide. Yes, some abnormal onlookers enjoy this, but this cannot be said about witnesses, other normal people, and especially about relatives of the suicide victim.

It is especially unpleasant for them that they are forced to clean up the consequences of suicide, make repairs, and wash damaged things. And cleaning up vomit, urine and feces, then collecting pieces of the body, washing away blood and mucus can fall out not only to relatives, but also, for example, to janitors...

The stretcher on which the corpse is placed always has dirty stains and dried blood on the tarpaulin. It seems like they are never clean.

Even professional orderlies will not carefully and with a mournful look carry and transport on a gurney what was previously the body of a person who himself gave up life. They will not shed tears, but will treat him as the waste tissue that previously consisted of the person who provided them with extra, extremely unpleasant work.

Agree that this will be quite fair. If you yourself treated your own body with such disdain while the soul was still in it, then why should the people whom you loaded with this difficult work treat it with more respect?

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Required evidence

A person guilty of committing a crime can be convicted even if the plan was not completed, that is, the victim survived. The main thing is to provide strong evidence of such a fact. Among the facts proving the crime are the following:

• witness's testimonies;
• correspondence with the guilty party;
• a note left before suicide;
• other facts.

Proving attempted suicide is extremely difficult. In addition, sometimes it loses its meaning because the punishment for such a crime is too lenient.

Techniques for working with a suicidal person

Thanks to special psychological techniques, it is possible to identify the trigger of suicidal thoughts and resolve the true problem.

Young's association test

Self-coaching of 16 associations takes approximately half an hour. It promotes the manifestation of talents and the resolution of complex life problems. The Jung test is a great help for understanding your own feelings. Psychological problems arise as a result of the brain, which remembers and recalls unpleasant stressful images. Understanding the reasons that influence the subconscious attitude towards a phenomenon, situation or fact. Step by step exercise:

• Sit comfortably in a quiet place.
• Have paper and pen ready.
• Decide what word you want to work with, such as “love,” if you have a bad breakup.
• Place numbers 1 through 16 vertically.
• Quickly, without wasting time on thoughts, enter phrases, catchphrases, words - associations in the left column.
• Then fill out column 2 and the rest, each time combining words into pairs - 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, etc.
• As a result, only one keyword comes out - something that allows you to diagnose the essence of the problem. You need to apply it every day to any current area and situation.

If the final key word turns out to be negative, sad, for example: sadness-helplessness-death, you should reformulate it into a positive one (death-freedom). Never give up!

Decision making technique - Descartes square

This is an easy way to make decisions by analyzing the situation. Answer a few questions: What happens if this (doesn't) happen? What advantages and disadvantages will there be, what will this (not) bring me. Everything (not) will remain as it was.

The exercise is aimed at clarifying the outcome of each decision. The whole truth is that under circumstances that force us to make a decision, we get stuck on one idea without thinking through other options and the outcome of our actions.

Technique for revising personal history according to Valery Sinelnikov

The purpose of the exercise is to reconsider negative situations in a positive way.

Algorithm:

• Think about a story, an event that pushes you to commit suicide. Something that caused anger, resentment, stress and negativity. Imagine in small details everything that happened, the people who took part in it. Say it out loud, visualize it. You should feel what you felt at that moment.
• In the end, you accept what happened. It has already happened and the past cannot be changed. We must take responsibility for the situation. After all, it was you who mentally or through actions created the ground for everything to be like this.
• You must take the positive out of what happened and put an emotional end to it. Every situation is a life lesson. “Everything that is done is for the better.” Think about how to avoid a recurrence in the future.
• It is important to breathe correctly during memories. Breathe slowly, calmly. Gently turn your head left, right, sideways, in a semicircle. Get rid of it, give away the negativity along with your exhalation.

The technique according to Valery Sinelnikov must be performed until the memories begin to evoke a feeling of freedom and lightness.

Miracle technique

Helps to increase the level of love of life, helps to leave thoughts about a negative event in the past, and rebuild thoughts about the future in a positive way. To complete the exercise, you need to imagine and sincerely believe that a miracle is possible and everything you write on a piece of paper will definitely come true. After all, it has long been known that thoughts are material.

Then you need to imagine what you will do when the wish comes true, how you will feel, how you will behave, how you will look, how you will tell your family and friends, think about the reaction of others. Feel the positive emotions colorfully, with taste, color, and be sure to smile at the same time.

Time Machine

Write down what you would like to change in the past, imagine a time machine and how you change these events. Imagine how, transported back some time, everything happens in the best way for you.

Then take a time machine to the future. Describe your life, appearance, environment in a year, 5, 10 years. All the little details are important. Cover all areas of life, think positively.

Tatiana Oshmyanskaya’s “Paper Man” technique

Exercise helps reduce the level of auto-aggression (hostility towards oneself):

• Take a clean landscape sheet (preferably with a high density) and with your hands, without scissors, tear it off so that a person comes out.
• Afterwards, note what you are not happy with about your creation and begin to “reproach” it: the legs are different, crooked, the head is large, ugly, etc.
• After each dissatisfaction, slightly curl the edge of the paper, starting from the head, and smooth it down firmly with your fingernail.
• When you throw out negativity, stop and look at what happened as a result.
• If you fantasize, what do you think such a twisted little man is capable of now? Most likely for useless, aggressive things or nothing at all.
• Then start praising the little man, as if you were yourself, telling him words of encouragement, while unfolding the paper over and over again.
• Note what is easier for you to do: scold or praise. Did you manage to unroll the paper completely? Is the untwisted little man different from the one before the folding?

Discouraging a person from committing suicide is not an easy task. It is important not to remain indifferent and seek qualified help.

What responsibilities are provided?

The maximum sentence for the crime is from two to six years or forced labor for up to seven years. In addition, punishment may be provided in the form of a ban on holding any position for up to seven years.

Important! If the crime was committed by so-called “death groups” or other organizations prepared for it, then a more severe punishment is imposed for the act: a prison term of 8 to 15 years or restriction of freedom for up to 2 years. This punishment may be accompanied by a ban on certain activities for up to ten years.

The same second part of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation will be applied if the act is directed against a person under the age of majority, against a pregnant woman, 2 or more people, in a public format.

The right to a second chance - how not to miss life?

A mental crisis passes faster if a person gets the opportunity to sincerely express his feelings. The primary need is the desire to be heard, to splash destructive thoughts and emotions to the surface. The ability to be safe and to overcome a crisis at a calm pace is a priceless gift that a family can give to a suffering relative.

After a suicide attempt, you should not return a person to the atmosphere from which he escaped. Help him change his life, find a new path, and not miss the second chance given by the Universe.

Arbitrage practice

Unfortunately, judges often have to consider cases where Article 110 of the Criminal Code appears. Society does not have time to shudder from cases when it learns that the next suicide is a teenager who fell under the influence of the “death group” on VKontakte. Typical cases include the following:

1. Driving a person of retirement age to suicide in order to obtain an inheritance or otherwise take possession of his savings. Many residents of Yekaterinburg remember the case when fraudsters fraudulently took away all the savings amounting to almost sixty thousand rubles from an old man, who was 91 years old at that time. The pensioner could not survive this shock and committed suicide.
2. Pregnant women.
3. Teenagers.

What threatens the organizer of “death groups”?

Soon, the organizers of “death groups” will be held responsible for inducing minors to commit suicide according to an addition to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation:

Organization of activities related to encouraging citizens to commit suicide by disseminating information about methods of committing suicide, as well as calls for minors to commit suicide.

According to the bill being developed, the creation of such organizations will be punishable by imprisonment for up to 4 years. If it is proven that the main actions were committed via the Internet and were of a mass nature, then a more severe punishment will be applied - up to 6 years in prison.

Driving or inducing suicide

The Criminal Code distinguishes several forms of committing this crime. They are as follows:

1. Drive to suicide.
2. Declension.
3. Assistance.

The main difference between adduction and inclination is that the first type can be carried out unconsciously for a long time. However, from the moment a sane individual decides to kill another person, this already qualifies as inclination.

With assistance, the criminal helps a person who has decided to “take his own life” to die. The form in this case can be different, for example, in the form of transferring weapons or hiding some data.

Thus, if a certain method of incitement to suicide is proven, then a more severe punishment may be applied to the offender. The legislation of countries in the post-Soviet space has its own peculiarities. For example, Ukraine applies more lenient punishment compared to Russia, and Kazakhstan cannot prosecute criminals for incitement to suicide at all, since liability in this country occurs only in the event of threats or cruel treatment.

What to do after a suicide attempt?

The suicide did not take place - the attempt to die was stopped in time. The man is saved, but his problems are not solved. Relatives, friends and the “victim” himself are faced with the problem: “There was a suicide attempt, what to do?”

The first months after salvation turn out to be decisive - a person can decide to live, no matter what, or finally become stronger in his desire to leave. The actions of loved ones are of great importance during this period. A person needs to cling to something from this life, to find a worthy meaning to continue the struggle. It's easier to do this if you feel needed! After all, one of the leading motives of a suicide is the belief: “They don’t love me, I’m useless.”

Help with a suicide attempt: doctors and relatives

The decision to commit suicide is formed under the influence of external and internal factors. Social pressure, an unfavorable psychological atmosphere in the family and at work, a deep sense of loneliness create conditions for the growth of personal conflict. Internal factors include cognitive impairment (thoughts about the lack of meaning in life), suppressed emotions (anger, resentment, unrequited love) and physical characteristics (diseases of the nervous system, disorders of brain function).

How do doctors help?

Medical assistance to a person rescued after a suicide attempt can be psychological (long-term personal or family counseling) or psychiatric (inpatient drug treatment).

The worst thing you can do is leave the rescued person without further help. If a person believes that the only way out of a crisis situation is suicide, it means that he has not found other solutions. The task of psychologists and psychiatrists is to “open our eyes” to other paths and help find a way out of the maze of problems.

Professional help is necessary, but it will only be beneficial if you convince the patient to accept it. In some cases, instead of consulting a doctor, a conversation with a priest or spiritual mentor (for believers) may help.

How can relatives help?

Relatives can either help the patient or cause even more harm. In cases where suicide is provoked by family conflicts, relatives have to admit their guilt and work together to rectify the situation. A suicide does not trust his own family, blames loved ones for his troubles (often quite justifiably), and demands an apology. Often family members become embittered against such exposure and, instead of helping, aggravate the situation with accusations: “How could you do this to us?” It is virtually impossible to do without professional help.

If suicide is provoked by external circumstances, and mistrust in relatives dissipates after several intimate conversations, then the family will be able to protect the patient from himself with their love. Loving support, forgiveness of insults, and a sincere desire to help give a person the feeling that he is needed and important. They help to cope with internal demons and find meaning in continuing life.