Roots of Suicidal Tendencies

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This paper discusses how people of all ages attempt suicide: men, women, and even young children, the rich as well as the poor, and how no one is immune to this tragedy. It analyzes the different factors that can lead to the taking of one's own life. It shows how suicide is not a normal response to extreme stress, but a response that occurs in vulnerable individuals who have developed a psychiatric illness; it is the chemical imbalance of serotonin in the brain that fails to stop these people from taking extreme actions.

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"Depression can arise from different reasons and when a depressed person's threshold of stress-endurance is crossed he/she might try to escape the pain by quitting life. Many people face similar problems and overcome them, but others don't. According to Dr. John Mann suicide is, "not a normal response to extreme stress; it's a response that occurs in vulnerable individuals who've developed a psychiatric illness." In other words although life circumstances can and do push a victim towards suicide, a person with a healthy brain chemistry is not even going to think of suicide. Normal, average brain chemistry will not create these kinds of thoughts."

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