SUICIDE AND ANXIETY IN DSM-5

摘要

Suicide has always been one of the most important adverse outcomes in society, but especially psychiatry and clinical mental health treatment. Statistics from 2010 show that suicide is the 10th overall cause of death, the third most frequent cause of death in the 15-24 age group, with an increase in rate over each of the last 5 years and at its highest rate in 15 years. It is recognized as one of themost frequent cause of sentinel events in 24-hr care facilities by the Joint Commission of Hospitals, with current signs of a serious epidemic of suicide in our veterans and armed services. Ninety percent of people who die by suicide are found to have a diagnosable psychiatric illness, 60% have depression and if alcoholics who are depressed are included the rate is over 75%.