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Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Hypertension/etiology , Life Change Events , Psychophysiologic Disorders/etiology , Stress, Psychological/complications , Vascular Headaches/etiology , Adult , Aged , Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/psychology , Female , Humans , Hypertension/psychology , Middle Aged , Vascular Headaches/psychologyABSTRACT
The paper is devoted to the description of suicidal manifestations in mentally normal adolescents among typical behavioural disorders characteristic of situational reactions of this age. Three types of suicido-dangerous situational responses of adolescents were specified with regard to their age and auto-and heteaggressiveness ratio: reaction of deprivation, explosive reaction and reaction of auto-elimination. Suicidogenic conflicts were analyzed and spheres of age-specific suicidal conflicts were defined. It is advisable that outpatient management of mentally normal adolescents with a history of a suicidal attempt be conducted in a special room of presentive suicidological service.
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Adjustment Disorders/mortality , Suicide Prevention , Adjustment Disorders/diagnosis , Adjustment Disorders/therapy , Adolescent , Aggression , Humans , Self Mutilation/mortalityABSTRACT
Some data from a long-term study involving a large group of children and adolescents having attempted suicide are presented. Psychic characteristics of the childhood and adolescence period, age-related specificity of psychopathic states and other factors determining the status of children and adolescents differentiate their suicidal manifestations as compared to adults and warrant a search for a special approach toward solving the questions of preventing suicides in youth. The differentiation between demonstrative suicidal actions and actual attempts at suicide in children and adolescents is rather relative due to their peculiar understanding of death, lack of death fear and inadequate estimation of their lives' value. In view of the above it is advisable to consider all suicidal actions of children and adolescents as genuine because their danger for life and health is equally great. Some personality characteristic features including emotional instability, excessive liability to suggestion, some explosiveness detected in all persons who have attempted suicide allow one to believe that they constitute suicidal predisposition of adolescent personality.
