Factors associated with post-stroke suicidal death

Well this is the likely outcome of the fact that our doctors do not have anything positive to help us on our recovery path. Only 10% get to almost full recovery. NO stroke rehabilitation protocols are provided. Nothing provided to solve our fatigue. Nothing provided to solve our spasticity. Nothing done to prevent our likely dementia. In simplest terms our doctors DO NOTHING.  Wouldn't you be fucking depressed? The solution is to solve the problems in stroke,
I got the talk while in the hospital, 'Have you ever thought about committing suicide? Also got the question, 'Do you blame your body for failing you?'

http://www.journalofpsychiatricresearch.com/article/S0022-3956(17)30461-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Jin Pyo Hong¹

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Subin Park¹

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Sung-Ho Ahn

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Jong S. KimCorrespondence information about the author Jong S. Kim

¹These authors equally contributed to this work.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.10.005

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Abstract

Background and purpose

The aim of this study was to estimate the relative risk of suicidal death compared to the general population and to identify risk factors for suicidal death among stroke patients.

Methods

Our sample consisted of 7175 patients who were diagnosed with stroke and admitted at Asan Medical Center from January 2005 to December 2012. Information on suicidal death was obtained from the database of the Korean National Statistical Office. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) for post-stroke suicide was estimated. Additionally, we conducted a 1:6 case-control study using patients who did not commit suicide.

Results

Thirty patients committed suicidal death, with the mean time interval between hospital admission and suicide being 1.9 ± 1.8 years. The SMR for suicide was 2.14 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.44–3.05). Case-control analysis revealed that diabetes mellitus, depression, and large ischemic lesions in the subcortex and brainstem were significantly associated with suicidal death.

Conclusions

The risk of suicidal death is approximately 2 times higher than that in the general population. Depression, diabetes, and large lesions in specific locations should be considered in the implementation of suicide prevention strategies in stroke patients.(100% recovery would be the solution preferred, Solve the primary problem, not the secondary problem)

Strokes can double the likelihood of attempted suicide

Well this is the likely outcome of the fact that our doctors do not have anything positive to help us on our recovery path. Only 10% get to almost full recovery. NO stroke rehabilitation protocols are provided. Nothing provided to solve our fatigue. Nothing provided to solve our spasticity. Nothing done to prevent our likely dementia. In simplest terms our doctors DO NOTHING.  Wouldn't you be fucking depressed? The solution is to solve the problems in stroke, not use a bandaid approach of psychological counseling. Solve the correct problem not the secondary problem.
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Stroke patients can be up to twice as likely to commit suicide compared with the rest of the population, and the risk of attempted suicide is highest within the first two years after a stroke. These are the findings of a study from Umeå University published in the journal Neurology.
"The study shows the need of both psychological and social support, as well as concrete measures to prevent suicide attempts, in people who have had a stroke and are at high risk of attempted suicide. The initiatives must also be put in place at an early stage as the risk of attempted suicide is greatest up to two years after a stroke," says Marie Eriksson, senior lecturer at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine and senior lecturer in Statistics at the Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, who conducted the study.
The study encompasses 220 336 patients who had a stroke during the period 2001-2012 and was registered in Riksstroke, the Swedish Stroke Register. Stroke patients that had attempted suicide were identified via the diagnostic code for attempted suicide found in the National Inpatient Register (National Board of Health and Welfare), and completed suicides were found by the researchers in the national Cause of Death register.

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