"Decades of investigating the phenomenon of suicide within the frame of medical research have not reduced suicide in the world. I believe that understanding suicide as a medical pathology is a misconception. The concept of the natural course of a disorder as we know it from somatic pathology, allowing a prognosis of a disorder does not hold for suicidal ideation. Even comprehensive suicide models cannot predict suicide, nor do they translate into effective prevention and treatment."
"Mental health disorders are suicide risk factors, not the cause of suicide. Furthermore, the medical model assumes that people suffering from mental health problems normally seek help. The fact is that thousands of people at risk of suicide do not seek help. The principles of medical thinking do not match with the personal experience of suicide. In short: It is the person who turns against oneself in an emotional crisis, not the depression."
"Suicidal thoughts and plans are inherently psychological. In difficult life situations for which the person doesn't see a solution, thoughts of suicide as a possible option are common and mostly transient. Suicide as a goal is not perceived as a form of pathology. This is supported by findings that three-fourths of individuals who reported episodes of suicidal ideation in the past year said that they did not feel they needed treatment [1]."
Decades of medical research have not reduced global suicide rates. Understanding suicide strictly as a medical pathology is a misconception because suicidal ideation lacks a predictable natural course like somatic disorders. Comprehensive suicide models cannot reliably predict suicide or translate into effective prevention and treatment. Mental health disorders act as risk factors for suicide but are not the direct cause. Thousands of people at risk do not seek help. Suicidal thoughts often arise from difficult life situations, are commonly transient, and many individuals with ideation do not perceive a need for treatment.
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