Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse are risk factors. Some suicides are impulsive acts due to stress, relationship... Wikipedia

• Specialty:  Psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work
• Usual onset:  15–30 and 70+ years old
• Risk factors:  Depression, bipolar disorder, autism, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, alcoholism, substance abuse
• Prevention:  Limiting access to methods of suicide, treating mental disorders and substance misuse, careful media reporting about suicide, improving social and economic conditions
• Frequency:  12 per 100,000 per year
• Deaths:  793,000 / 1.5% of deaths (2016)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo