The following symptoms and complaints may indicate suicidality (suicide risk):
- Symptoms of depression; in particular.
- Loss of self-esteem
- Hopelessness
- “no light at the end of the tunnel” (perplexity).
- “having nothing left to live for”.
- “no longer makes sense”
- “just can’t (won’t) do it anymore”
- Symptoms of bipolar disorder (here esp. ‘mixed states’ associated with a simultaneous or rapidly alternating occurrence of depressive and manic symptomatology).
- Suicidal thoughts, plans, impulses.
- Change in the relationship (“calm before the storm”)
Warning signs (red flags)
- Drug use
- Self-injury: self-injurious behavior (SVV) or autoaggressive behavior.
- Acute suicide risk in the first month after self-injury increased by about 180 times
- Risk of death due to acute alcohol or drug intoxication 34 times higher than in the control group