{"id":189875,"date":"2018-10-25T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=189875"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:10:04","slug":"beware-warning-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2018\/10\/25\/beware-warning-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the warning signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in life may be upsetting and they may want to escape a difficult problem or situation, or get relief from terrible stress.<\/p>\n<p>People who are thinking about suicide feel alone and isolated, and often believe that no one understands how they feel.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>People who talk about suicide may be likely to try it. In fact 75% of people who commit suicide give some warning. This means all suicide threats should be taken seriously and you can do something to stop a friend taking their life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Warning signs include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking or joking about suicide. Your friend may talk about dying, threaten to kill him or herself, or say things like \u201cnothing matters\u201d, or \u201cI wish I was dead\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Depression. Your friend may feel hopeless, lose interest in doing anything and withdraw from friends and family.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing for death. Many teens who are planning suicide will give away favourite things, or even say goodbye.<\/li>\n<li>Self-criticism. Listen to things your friend says, things like \u201cI can\u2019t do anything right\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m hideous and pathetic\u201d, may mean they are feeling suicidal.<\/li>\n<li>Changes in personality. Someone who is usually sociable, may not want to go out, may become negative, aggressive or irritable, lose their friendships.<\/li>\n<li>Loss of interest in appearance, drop in hygiene. If your friend stops caring what they look like, getting dressed or even bathing or washing.<\/li>\n<li>Risk-taking behaviour. Often people who are feeling suicidal do risky, dangerous things like drink and drive, have unprotected sex, or take drugs.<\/li>\n<li>Excessive feelings of guilt, self-blame, failure. If someone is depressed, they often feel guilty and blame themselves, and it can be very difficult to talk to them \u2014 be as patient as you can.<\/li>\n<li>Suddenly feel better. If you know a friend who has been very depressed and hasn\u2019t been for treatment, but is suddenly back to normal\u2019 this could be dangerous. It may mean they have set a date for their suicide and know the pain will soon end.<\/li>\n<li>Writing poems, essays about death, SMSes or painting images of death. This is a cry for help, listen to it and get help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suicidal feelings and thoughts are part of depression; they are real and not a sign of weakness. Many of us have felt the same way at some time in our life so don\u2019t be afraid to talk about how you feel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/189870\/depression-silent-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Depression: The silent killer<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='775e9b560ad5f87236ee07baebcc568a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Causes of suicide often include depression, alcohol and drug use, bullying or self-injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":189876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Carmen Norton","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[8208,21064,21066,8449,18503,3858],"class_list":["post-189875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-depression","tag-how-to-spot-the-signs-of-suicide","tag-link-between-suicide-and-depression","tag-sadag","tag-sadag-suicide-crisis-helpline","tag-suicide"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["depression","how to spot the signs of suicide","link between suicide and depression","sadag","Sadag suicide crisis helpline","suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}