SUICIDE

Borderline personality disorder

Unstable emotions, disturbed thinking patterns, impulsive behaviour.

Severe depression

severe symptoms of despair and hopelessness that interfere with their life.

Generalised anxiety disorder

Is when a person has persistent, recurring feelings of stress and anxiety.

Schizophrenia

Is a long-term mental health condition that causes hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real), delusions (believing in things that are not true) and changes in behaviour.

Bipolar disorder

Is when a person swings from feeling very high and happy to feeling very depressed.

Traumatic experience during childhood, such as a bereavement.

A perception (usually mistaken) that they are alone in the world and that no one really cares about them.

Having a parent who died by suicide

Being socially isolated, living alone or having few close friends or family members.

Feeling like one has not lived up to his or her high expectations or those of another.