Narrative- On 5Nov16 at 1211 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was dispatched to 16012 Garnet Dr. for a report of suicidal female. Dispatch informed me, Coralyn Cohrs was reporting her daughter, Brandy Cohrs being suicidal again after she was released from the ER early this morning. I arrived & spoke with Inv. Schlag, Coralyn, John Kyllonen, Brandy’s boyfriend who were all in the driveway. Brandy was sitting on the stairs nearby. I spoke with John & Coralyn who stated Brandy was making threats of wanting to hurt herself again as she was saying she didn’t have any friends. Inv. Schlag spoke with Brandy about the incident and she admitted to him she was not suicidal & had not taken any pills, as John feared. While speaking with the mentioned parties,
Karmen is a 50-year-old married who told her psychiatrist that she was considering suicide through overdosing on Advil. She complains of severe back pain that has left her with a “poor mood”. She talked about the injury for a long period of time. When doctors did not validate her injury, she described feeling abandoned. Karmen had gained weight and was upset about that. She did not take making suicidal comments seriously and often just used them as a threat towards her husband. She craved the attention of the doctors, and was flirtatious with the person who interviewed her. Karmen’s husband said that she talked about suicide on a regular basis. Karmen became sexually active early in life and has always gone for older men.
Symptoms/Focus: Dr. Andrew Bourgeois at Simi Valley Emergency Room requested an evaluation of client by the Crisis Team for Suicidal Ideation and Grave Disability. Client placed a call to EMS on his own behalf on the evening of 05/14/2017. Client requested to be picked up from in front of a restaurant and taken to Simi Valley Emergency Room due to suicidal ideation with a plan to "cut head with a saw". Client stated to Dr. Bourgeois that his depression had increased over the last 3 days. Client denied drug or alcohol use, but was positive for amphetamine in the hospital toxicology screen. Client had been seen at Simi Valley ER and
On 08/05/2016 at approximately 1:50 AM, this Investigator with Investigator V. Shroyer arrived at 12211 N. Paradise Village Parkway, Phoenix, AZ for Case # 537001 report of Child Neglect for victim Fiona McFadden (DOB: 03-05-2013) against her mother Monica Katich (DOB: 09-17-89). Upon arriving on the scene, this Investigator met with the report source, Phoenix Police Officer E. Gomez # 7977 in reference to Phoenix Police DR: 2016-00001441605. According to Officer Gomez, Phoenix Police received an emergency 911 call from Monica Katich that her friend later identified as Ashley Brook Post (DOB: 06-21-83) had overdosed on Heroin. Upon Officer Gomez arriving on the scene, Monica told Officers Gomez and Officer Cambell (#9021) that her friend Ashley
On Wednesday, February 22, 2017, I, Officer B. McMillon #135 of the MISD Police Department was on assignment at Mansfield Legacy High School located at 1263 N. Main Street in Mansfield, Texas 76063. At approximately 9:00 am, LHS student Reid, Lauryn 12/28/2000 entered the police office and told me that she thinks that her friend was thinking about harming herself.
I currently live in a big household with my father, mother, roommate, and seven siblings. This household gains low-income and is hard to deal through the struggles. There are several issues that were hard to manage such as not being able to afford personal items for me and my siblings. We were not economically sufficient since we had utilities bills and medical bills to pay. All the medical bills includes the surgery for my sister that was born with a cleft plate, surgery for my mother tumor that had to be removed, and my dad therapy for his back pain since he works extremely hard in construction and always comes home in aching pain. Also, all my siblings have asthma and are constantly in the emergency room do to sudden asthma attacks. We have to pay for the asthma treatment for everyone of them.
I recently saw a young 18-year-old female in my clinic who was seeking pain medications for abdominal pain. Her urine pregnancy test was positive. The moment I informed her of the results, she broke down into tears. She confessed to being addicted to opiate pain medications. She was suffering from severe withdrawal symptoms and felt helpless. She said that her father abandoned their family when she was 9 and her mother recently died from a drug overdose. She did not have a job, nor had any close friends. I fought tears in my eyes as she was talking about how her former boyfriend gradually forced her into addiction. Her boyfriend recently left her after her doctor stopped prescribing pain pills.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in teens. Most teens commit suicide mainly because of bullying which pushes teens over the edge; because they believe what their peers say about them. Studies show that more teens are dying in this generation than any other generation due to suicide. Bullying is the biggest cause of teen suicide because it pushes people to believe that it is the only way out, makes people feel worthless, and causes the most mental problems in teens.
Normal reactions to pain of loss, rejection, or disappointment and some which are more extreme reactions that can lead them in minor hopelessness, is teen suicide. When a teen commits suicide, everyone is affected. Family members, friends, teammates, neighbors, and sometimes even those who didn’t know the teen well enough might experience feelings of grief, confusion, guilt, and the sense that if only they had done something differently, the suicide could have been prevented.
Imagine waking up every day tired, and drowsy. Having to go to school every day being pushed around and having other children make you feel like you’re worthless but you are actually feeling worthless, hopeless, and careless. You have no place where you can go and just be peaceful nowhere to go to just be free. At home there are problems, At school there are problems, everywhere u go u have that feeling of sadness, worthlessness, and hopelessness. Having those feeling of harming yourself to take the inside pain away and having thoughts about taking you life away. Suicidal teen’s feelings, what caused them to become suicidal, and how they overcome the feelings?
My father was in the United States Army. He was stationed in Germany during the Cold War and when he returned home he starting having problems. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1992 his condition was manageable all the way up until 2008. All of sudden he did not trust anyone; he would not let anyone in his house, and he started buying plane tickets and flying to random places and staying in hotels and not letting anyone know where he was. This continued for about three years, finally in the spring of 2011 he reached out to my grandmother and said that he would like to talk to me. When we spoke he told me that he was lonely and wanted to know if I would be willing to come and stay with him for a while. I am single with no children and at the time I was unemployed.
Can you single out just one day from your past that you can honestly say changed your life forever? I know I can. It was a typical January day, with one exception; it was the day the Pope came to St. Louis. My brother and I had tickets to the youth rally, and we were both very excited. It was destined to be an awesome day- or so we thought. The glory and euphoria of the Papal visit quickly faded into a time of incredible pain and sorrow, a time from which I am still emerging.
I loved her you know. I loved her, before, before she changed. Before everything went wrong. Before she killed herself. I’m pretty sure it was my fault too. If only I had been brave enough, like she was, but I guess that’s why people humiliated her. I guess that’s why she died; because I was a coward. I wish I hadn’t of been, she wouldn’t be in a grave if I had just had the courage. I loved her too. She didn’t know it, but I tried to hint at it. I guess she thought I was leading her on or something. I tried to tell her but every time I did attempt to, she would look up at me with those big brown eyes and I would melt and nothing would come out.
Suicide, it's not pretty. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's the
Many live due to the fear of death, many die due to the fear of living. Suicide is the act of ending one’s own life as a result of emotional and spiritual problems. Suicide, to some, is seen as a permanent escape. The Church itself argues against suicide. Life is borrowed and is not for one to just give away, God is the only one who can judge life. Suicide should not be committed because it infringes our relationship with others and ultimately God. Suicide is a selfish act all on its own.
Often times when I heard the word "suicidal" I was curiously caused the person to do it. Growing up, I heard that people decided to commit suicide was because they "wanted attention, they wanted the easy way out, they were weak, they couldn't handle life, etc." Personally, I have significant people in my life that have felt like they wanted to commit suicide. So, this topic honestly is a difficult, yet, emotional one to discuss.