| Relationship
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| • | Psychological
autopsies in completed suicides confirm |
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over 90% have a diagnosable psychiatric illness. |
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| • | Life-time
mortality due to suicide in previously |
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| hospitalized
patients are high: unipolar depression (15%); |
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| bipolar
disorder (15-20%); alcoholics (18%); |
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| schizophrenics
(10-15%); and borderline and antisocial |
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| personality
disorders (5-10%). |
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| • | Comorbidity
increases risk. |
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