[Suicide attempts--possibility of psychoprofilactic]

Not all suicides can be prevented, however considering the risk of committing the suicide on its merits allows physician to undertake treatment of depression and at the same way decrease morbidity and mortality rate in population at suicidal risk. Every physician should pay special attention to patients with intense anxiety and psychomotor agitation or psychotic symptoms like imperative hallucinations or persecutory delusions. The important risk factors of committing suicide are hopelessness, social isolation, adaptation difficulties after loss, divorce, braking up, spouse death. The high suicidal risk group is made up of adolescents and advanced in years. In case of any doubts in estimating the suicidal risk the psychiatric consultation ought to be taken.