High Risk Life Events Associated with Suicide

*Death or terminal illness of a loved one

 

*Divorce, separation, or broken relationship

 

*Loss of health (real or imaginary)

 

*Loss of job, home, money, self esteem, personal security

 

*Anniversaries

 

*Difficulties with school, family, the law

 

*Early stages of recovery from depression

 

*Excessive substance use/abuse