[Suicide prevention - the prognosis is good if help is offered in time].

Abstract

It is difficult to predict who will end their life by suicide, but often possible to prevent a suicide. To succeed with suicide prevention within healthcare, a clinical practice is required that includes more than assessing signs of psychiatric disease. Assessments of suicide risk must include the patient's own perspective and narrative, as well as life-threatening behavior and reasons to live. Cooperation with relatives is necessary to understand the whole picture, and alternative behavior in situations where life seems impossible to endure should be the long-term goal of all suicide prevention.