Suicide: The Ones Who Are Left Behind

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It’s often the ones left to pick up the pieces after a traumatic event like suicide who experience the most pain. Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen take a look at how suicide affects others, and ways to break the cycle of suffering.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman.
0:06.0	And I'm Tanna Aeman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions.
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0:49.6	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast.
0:57.0	Welcome back everyone. We've been silly on this podcast.
1:00.0	Today we're going to be really serious.
1:02.0	We're going to talk about suicide and the impact it has on
1:07.9	loved ones. And some of you know, you know, I talk about how I grew up Catholic, like my mother was not kidding about the whole thing and I went to Catholic school.
1:18.0	So I'm actually really good with guilt and whenever I have a suicidal patient I just let them know if you kill yourself
1:29.3	you actually are increasing the risk your children will kill themselves. It's a 500% increased risk.
1:37.0	And I often talk to my patients about this is a permanent solution to what is usually a temporary
1:48.9	feeling and so we both have experience with this. And so it's not uncommon.
1:53.0	55% of the US population at some point in their life have thought about killing themselves.
1:59.0	So if you've had the thought, it's actually pretty normal. Attempting suicide, females actually
2:06.9	attempt suicide four times more than males but males are four times more effective because they tend to use more
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