‘Survivors of Suicide Attempts-Post Survival Scenario’ (A Socio-Medical Study on Survivors of Suicide Attempt in Kurnool district)

Suicide attempts are also referred to as Para suicide or as self harm behavior. Suicide attempt is sometime interpreted as a “cry for help and attention or to express despair and the wish to escape, rather than a genuine intent to die. For every suicide death, there are 25 attempts for suicides. A prior suicide attempt is the single most risk factor for suicide in the general population. The suicide attempts being cries for attention, and those who attempt suicide being so high, the question that comes up is what happens to the victims physically and mentally and how do they cope with the consequences of the attempts and what could be effective intervention strategies to reintegrate them back into life stream is analyzed in this paper.