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August 31st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
August 30, 2015
The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) recently published a study on the signs and behaviors people display when they are contemplating suicide.
In America, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death . Among males, suicide is 4 times higher than in females.
That number jumps up to 14.2 deaths per every 100,000 in Caucasian men, while Native Americans are responsible for 11.7 suicides per every 100,000.
According to the research, there are noticeable “differences between patients with previous history of suicide attempts and those without, including distinct clinical features, history of pharmacological treatment and previous response to antidepressant monotherapy (more (hypo)manic switches, higher rates of treatment resistance, more frequent mood lability and irritability following treatment with antidepressants).”
An estimated 2,811 depressed patients were evaluated; with 628 of the participants having previously attempted suicide.
Patterns in suicidal people emerged during the study, including:
• “risky behavior” such as reckless driving or promiscuousness
• “psychomotor agitation” such as pacing around rooms or wringing their hands
• impulsivity – defined by the researchers as acting with “little or no forethought, reflection, or consideration of the consequences”
When a person is thinking about suicide, “depressive mixed states” are displayed; however these behaviors are also indicative of “excitation or mania”.
Dina Popovic, psychiatrist at the University of Barcelona and lead author of the study explained : “Forty percent of all depressed patients who attempted suicide had a ‘mixed episode’ rather than just depression. All who suffer from mixed depression are at much higher risk of suicide. We found this significantly more in patients who had previously attempted suicide than those who had not.”
The researchers pointed out that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) “missed those who could have symptoms indicating a greater suicide risk” when determining the criteria necessary for identifying patients who display “mixed states”.
Popovic added: “The major diagnostic and statistical manual that tells you what to do and how to diagnose patients is not paying attention to some of these symptoms.”
A similar study was conducted in 2014 by the Ghent University (GU) in Belgium and Columbia University (CU) which utilized “in-vivo neuroimaging studies indicate a biological basis” and genome samples to decipher biomarkers that can tell if an individual has a propensity toward considering suicide.
Authors of the study assert that suicide is “heritable” and knowing this is “crucial” to preventing suicidal behavior.
J. John Mann, co-author of the study, explains that suicide is “an interaction between environmental stressors and a susceptibility to suicidal behavior” called traitlike diathesis (TD).
Mann points toward knowing which “genes [they] are and how they exert their effect.”
Essentially, genetic propensity aided by environmental factors could lead to suicide and if these scientists could identify biomarkers they could predict whether or not an individual would attempt to or even consider committing suicide and implement preventative measures.
Beyond observable “risky behavior”, circumstances can cause people to commit suicide.
Last year the Oxford University in London (OUL) conducted a study on the effects of the financial collapse of 2008 and found that because of foreclosures and economic strife, the suicide rate dramatically increased.
It was shown that more than 10,000 Americans and Europeans took their lives from 2007 to 2010.
However, in 2009, there is an obvious spike of suicides that remained unusually high until beginning to drop in 2011. In Canada there was a noticeable increase in suicides which lead to an additional 240 deaths.
Americans alone added nearly 5,000 more deaths over the course of 4 years because of the financial crash and housing bubble.
Men in particular were shown to have a higher incident of suicide once financial difficulties began than women. This difference was explained by the men-are-breadwinners social assumption.
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