What Are The Social Causes of Suicide?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
People who commit suicide often do so as an act of anger, and with a specific target to cause hurt and pain in mind. Therefore, it's hard to truly evaluate depression and suicidal thoughts without taking social circumstances into consideration. In part three of "Suicide Awareness Week," Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss the relationship factors that can drive people to commit suicide.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:54.0 | We're talking about Suicide Awareness Week, |
| 0:56.0 | and we've talked about the biological factors, |
| 0:59.0 | psychological factors. |
| 1:01.0 | Now we're going to talk about the social factors who kills themselves. |
| 1:06.4 | More common people who are isolated. |
| 1:09.2 | People who are not connected to a group. Social isolation is bad for your brain. There's actually a higher |
| 1:16.4 | incidence of Alzheimer's disease, clearly a higher incidence of depression in people who are |
| 1:22.4 | lonely. So interesting. of depression in people who are |
| 1:23.0 | So interesting people who are isolated that completely makes sense |
| 1:27.4 | haven't they done studies on if you are isolated it's good to have a pet even I know that sounds crazy but but when people know that their pets are counting on them |
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