Psycho-social causes of suicide in Multan

ABSTRACT

Suicide occurs when the present and the future is seen bleak and negative. Suicidal people are preoccupied with their problems, lose perspective and see suicide as an effective solution to their difficulties. "Suicide is not a disease". "Suicide is the act of taking one's own life on purpose. "The man who kills himself is through with life; he has literally died psychologically before he kills his body." Society exists within the minds of the individuals who exist within society, and when individuals interact the idea of society becomes an ever-changing "whole" product of this interaction. This helps relate sociology and psychology, and also gives insight into the cause of suicide which is often termed "tunnel vision". Because people internalize all thoughts, emotions, interpretations of society, etc., and because these forces, external and internal, strongly act upon them, they feel there is no way to escape in a conscious, or even semi-conscious, state