Suicide Attempt After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Report
Çiçek Hocaoğlu, Demet Sağlam
Article No:
7
Article Type :
Case Report
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) most frequently caused by traffic accidents and falls, is a cause of disability, as well as increasing the psychiatric morbidity. Suicidality is a common psychological reaction to TBI among out-patient populations. The possibility that patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury will commit suicide is high, and in many cases clinicians tend to underestimate this possibility.Management should involve careful history taking of previous post-injury suicidal behaviour, assessment of post-injury adjustment to TBI with particular focus on the degree of emotional/psychiatric disturbance, and close monitoring of those individuals with high levels of hopelessness and suicide ideation. Consequently, in our cse report an inpatient who has attempted to commit suicide after TBI is presented.
Keywords :
Traumatic brain injury, suicide attempt, psychiatric disorders
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2004;17:171-173
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