Is the suicide rate higher for adoptees? ?

sunny

I know of one, too.

I also know of two adopted men in their 40s that are in prison for life.

Almost every adopted male I have ever known (and it's probably a couple hundred) either has drug/alcohol problems or are very ANGRY people.

And yes, adoptees are 17X more likely to become serial killers. Here's your study, C@rn*e:

http://crimemagazine.com/07/adoptionforensics,0919-7.htm

Cool Hal

Personally I have never thought of suicide and never would. Whilst adoption bothers me at times I would never let myself get that bad.

Would be interesting to find out and maybe look at ways of preventing it.

Lewys - wtf?

"but I do know that 8 out of the 10 people that I know committed it did wear glasses or have fillings"

How many people do you know that have committed suicide? And if it is as many as you say can I suggest that it is YOU that is driving them to suicide and nothing to do with their eyes or teeth?

anastasia beaverhausen-the real1

i do think it's higher.

personally, suicide isn't my thing, no matter how depressed i get, and i have fought depression my whole life. i just don't feel like i really want to do it.

i have had times in my life when i wished for death, but never wanted to kill myself.

snowwillow20

I don't know about suicide. When I found my daughter in 2001, I also found my friends son. He just passed away in july from heart failure, he was 34. My own daughter is always sick as am I. We suffer from stomach problems, low self esteem and I have phobias, afraid to talk to people, drive on trips, just silly stuff. My short term memory is really bad. I have fibromyalgia, headaches and depression. I have been through counseling and reunion. Another friend who found her son, found him in prison. I don't know if this has anything to do with adoption but this happened in my small circle of friends.

cornpopishavingakernel@ymail.com

I'm pretty much anti-adoption. Everyone I've ever known who adopted a child had nothing but trouble with them. In the early years of their children's lives- they thought they'd done a great thing, but as their children got older they started to give their parents lots of problems. A large percentage of the people in therapy in the US are adopted. The IQ's and personalities of adopted children are almost 100% of the time more similar to that of their biological parents than their adoptive parents. A lot of adopted kids have bad genes- and heredity DOES matter, whether their parents want to recognize that or not.

mom lost 66

imo I think that an adopted person is more likely to commit
suicide because they are so messed up they are taken from their mother and put with a family that needs a trophy on their arm
the child does not look like anyone nor do they have the same manners
they are depressed people my son told me that he was confused and depressed why because his whole life is a lie
a mother should never be separated from her child it against nature
and the human bond

â™¥Summer, Chris & Catrionas mom!â™¥

Hi,
Yes, for sure. I was adopted out at 7 weeks. My sibling, Also adopted, couldn't manage with her depression at all, and has attempted to commit suicide and took up smoking and drinking and things a lot worse too.. I never thought of it really, but I got close. The person who said 'we have bad genes' is using stereotypes. My parents were great people, who couldn't afford to have me and thought it was selfish to keep me. We aren't 'bad people' we just have to go through so much, you have absolutely no idea. I am lucky, I have came out a pretty good person, and I am now a mother myself. Life is ten times harder for us.
Good luck,
Hope this has helped.

Rainia W

I don't know, I personally have considered suicide in the past, but depression runs in the biological family. So I can't really blame it on being adopted... I personally think I would have had a harder time growing up if I was surrounded by people with similar health problems, versus my family who were very strong emotionally.

Perhaps there is a connection though.... I just have never seen it in my personal experiences with other adoptees. In fact, I am the only adoptee I know that has gone through a serious depression... some of them have done through depressions after like job loss or a break up but nothing severe.

Independ"ant"

That's one study that nobody in the pro adoption circus wants to even address.

I personally know and/or have met kids that were adopted from an early age or at birth that were/are slowly killing themselves by using drugs or abusing alcohol.

Almost all of them act like they have good/normal relationships with their aparents but behind their backs they speak differently and more honestly. Its usually written off as typical teenage/young adult behavior.

Rowan

I'm an adoptee, and i have, nor do i ever plan, on attempting suicide. That said, i believe that in cases were an adoptee commits suicide, theres a lot more wrong then just being adopted. After all, they don't have access to their medical records, or history, so if depression runs in the family, they dont know it.
Each situation is different, and it really bothers me that so many people see adoptees as damaged, or potential criminals. Last time i checked, myself and my twin are law abiding citizens. No police record whatsoever.

Carnie C

this issue has already been debated on this board and, despite the lack of any scientific stats, many on here believe that not only is the suicide rate higher for adoptees but the prisons are full of nothing than adoptees who have become murderers, serial killers, rapists among other things.

it sounds like we're doomed, damaged, ruined, living without a chance . .. all because we're adopted?! no wonder they're committing suicide -- it's either suicide or the prison . .. .

or . . .we could just wake up one day and live life like it's meant to be lived.

Lewys

I have never heard this but I do know they have done research on the connecting between suicide and glass's and fillings in teeth they actually are starting to wonder if the glasses touching both sides of the face and the same with the filings they think they might be shorting something in the brain and causing them to be suicidal. know I don't know this to be true but I do know that 8 out of the 10 people that I know committed it did wear glasses or have fillings.

karl dugas

hello im adopted since birth, i can agree with a lot that was said on this site all my life three ideas float in my spirit and mind, one day i may die or go to prison. when i was young, when i was nice i was an angel, when i was bad ohlala i was bad. two parts of my character to live with, and also live with what i dont know. sometimes i watch the news on tv i see an accident and i ask myself why couldnt that be me in that accident. im not suicidal if so i wouldve bean dead a long time ago. i accept being adopted but, its true that the idea of death is part of our spirit. it is part of our pain. like confusion, relationship problems, social life, their are a lot of people who do have great lifes with great parents . being adopted is like being happy one day then un happy the next. un fortunantly the circomstances of the adoptees are different. depends on the way of being raised

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