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The following can be associated with risk for suicide. In general, the more of these factors a student has experienced and the greater the severity, the higher the risk for suicide.
- Has suicidal ideation, plans and/or means
- Recent significant loss
- Failure to live up to their own or others' expectiations
- Increased isolation/social withdrawal
- Inability to experience pleasure or have fun
- Alcohol/other drug use
- Poor class attendance/poor academic performance
- Concerns about sexual orientation
- Change in personality
- Giving away posessions
- Sexual promiscuity
- Previous suicide attempts
- Feelings of hopelessness/despair
- Off-handed comments about not being around or about death
- Impulsivity and/or violence
- See death as the only way to end their suffering
- Thoughts of suicide
- Appears to be in a fog
- Recent sexual assault
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