Citation

Skakić O. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 150-151.

Affiliation

Clinic for Mental Health Protection, Clinical Center Nis, Bulevar dr Z. Dindjića 48, 18000 Nis, Serbia and Montenegro. (askakic@bankerinter.net)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16964157

Abstract

In addition to accidental crisis, we are often talking in the modern world about development crisis. The terms like period, or time, even years of crisis are mostly used in the milieu of our country, because our people were exposed to contemporary or successive critical situations. This increases the general tendency to mental disorders and causes many pathological phenomena, with suicide among them as the most serious. In our society suicide is treated as well as a product of illness or seismograph of sociable impact, because there is high unemployment, privation, high percent of divorce and social isolation. Nevertheless, the same occurs in other developmental states, were benefit of civilization, wrongly directed, can dehumanize and alienate and lead to suicidal tendencies. Although, the risk of suicide is 3-12 times higher among psychiatric patients, the greatest number of those who commit suicide have never met a psychiatrist. Furthermore, when in the presence of mental illness, the patient consciously chooses death, great stigma and mystery remains attached to the psychiatrist himself. Psychiatrists are sometimes placed between, on the one side, some statistical reports or simplified approaches, which very clearly claim to know the causes of suicide, and, on the other side, knowledge about the role of the unconscious in suicide, in formulation of not "why" someone committed suicide"", but"what" does he wanted to reach? Psychiatric experience is that there will be 5 patient's suicides within a psychiatrist's life span. We are afraid this figure will be exceeded today, in a time of crisis, endangering the psychiatrist himself. The Psychiatrist should not stay alone in his treatment of suicidal patient. He needs a great support of society, just like his patient does. Only by working together, will we feel that we are doing something not "with", but "for" someone who wants to commit suicide.

Language: en