[Social environment of the psychic crisis situation]

The social environment in a psychic crisis situation is of great importance for the mode of action chosen to cope with the crises. Using suicide and the different characteristics of persons, who successfully attempted or completed suicide, as an example, different strategies are presented. Three questions of special importance are mentioned: 1. the question, as to what triggered the crisis; 2. the question of the social network and the quality of relationship and 3. the question, when the affected person and his social network were confronted with the problems.