Risk Factors

• Exposure to graphic or sensationalized accounts of suicide

• Impulsive or aggressive tendencies

• Family history of child maltreatment

• Previous suicide attempts

• Access to lethal methods

• Stressful life events

  • death

  • divorce

  • bullying

  • harassment

  • relationship issues

• Isolation

• Family history of suicide

• History of alcohol or substance abuse

• Barriers to access mental health treatment

• History of mental disorders, particularly clinical depression

• Unwillingness to seek help because of the stigma attached to mental health and substance abuse disorders or to suicidal thoughts