What Are the Psychological Causes of Suicide?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary feeling, but what are the causes of those feelings of hopelessness? In the second episode of "Suicide Awareness Week," Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss the psychological causes that can lead to suicide or suicidal thoughts, as well as what can be done to treat these causes.
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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. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:54.0 | We are talking about Suicide Awareness Week. |
| 0:57.0 | This is our second episode, and I think this is a really serious topic. |
| 1:01.0 | I know this has been something I know a lot of |
| 1:03.5 | teenagers struggle with this this happened this year with Chloe at school. They had |
| 1:08.7 | a very dramatic event happen with one of the kids at school committing suicide leaving a bunch of letters |
| 1:16.2 | and so this affects all of us and I think this is really important to talk about why does happen? I think in this episode we're |
| 1:23.2 | talking about the psychology behind it. Right. One other thing on the biology is I've |
| 1:28.9 | actually published two studies on suicide. So out of the 145,000 scans we've done here at Aeman |
| 1:36.0 | Clinics, we track a lot of our patients and we know of about 40 people later who ultimately killed themselves and so we actually went back and |
| 1:48.5 | looked at their scans and what we that do, |
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