A nurse has been caring for a suicidal client for 3 weeks on an inpatient unit. One morning the client greets the nurse cheerfully and states, "Everything is looking up. I’m not going to have problems for very long." What does the client’s behavior and statement indicate?

A suicidal person is a person that want to ends its life. The person who commits this act does so because he feels he has nothing to do in this life, he feels useless and believes that ending his life is the best solution.

Many of the people who decide to end their life are depressive. Depression is defined as the state of sadness and hopelessness in which a person is maintained for a prolonged period. Other symptoms include not doing activities that once caused him pleasure, sleeping for most of the day, isolating himself from others and suicidal thoughts and actions.

When the suicidal person in principle states that he will not do so, this is a symptom that the risk of taking his life increases. He does so to give him the freedom to go home and thus commit the act. The person who has this type of thoughts and comes to commit these actions must receive psychological treatment and in some cases also drugs to reduce symptoms and thus lead to a better quality of life.