Maria A. Oquendo

TL;DR: The global burden of suicide and suicidal behaviours is discussed, and an overview of the current understanding of the mechanisms of suicide is provided, including risk factors for suicidal ideation and the transition from ideation to suicide attempt.

TL;DR: How health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are addressing the mental health gap is described and four priority areas are identified for focused attention: diminishing pervasive stigma, building mental health system treatment and research capacity, implementing prevention programs to decrease the incidence of mental disorders, and establishing sustainable scale up of public health systems to improve access to mental health treatment using evidence-based interventions.

TL;DR: Alcohol use, personality disorders and younger age are risk factors for re-attempting and older age is a risk factor for suicide among suicide attempters.

TL;DR: Whether risk of suicide attempts (SAs) differs between patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) is unclear and cumulative risk differences are due to dissimilarities in time spent in high‐ risk states, incidence per unit time in high-risk states, or both is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether risk of suicide attempts differs between patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and found that patients with BD spent 4.6% of the time in mixed episodes, and more time in major depressive episodes (MDEs) and in subthreshold depression (39% versus 31%, respectively) than those with MDD.