Despite a growing understanding of the triggers for suicidal thoughts and behavior, little is known about the mechanisms that prevent people from killing themselves. The goal of the present study was to use publicly available Reddit data to better understand the reasons that people give for not following through with a potentially lethal suicide attempt. Threads containing key terms (e.g., “kill yourself”) within the subreddit /r/AskReddit were collected and all top posts from these threads were thematically coded. Across the posts collected, 11 different themes were identified; friends and family, curiosity and optimism about the future, spite, purpose, transience, hobbies, animals/pets, fear of survival, fear of pain, death and/or the afterlife, apathy/laziness, and intervention. Some additional themes were captured in an “other” category, and a twelfth theme, use of pharmaceutical drugs, was identified, but not discussed. These findings provide a broad overview about the proximal protective factors that directly stopped people from making a suicide attempt. They also illustrate the potential for Reddit as platform through which to better understand factors that may help to identify and support those in suicidal crisis. Such insight may help to inform intervention and prevention strategies for suicide and those in suicidal crisis.

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Reddit 用户对自杀未遂原因的看法的内容分析

尽管人们越来越了解自杀念头和行为的诱因，但人们对防止人们自杀的机制知之甚少。本研究的目标是使用可公开获得的 Reddit 数据来更好地理解人们给出的不执行可能致命的自杀企图的原因。收集了 subreddit /r/AskReddit 中包含关键术语（例如，“杀死自己”）的主题，并且这些主题中的所有热门帖子都进行了主题编码。在收集的帖子中，确定了 11 个不同的主题；朋友和家人、对未来的好奇和乐观、恶意、目的、短暂、爱好、动物/宠物、对生存的恐惧、对痛苦、死亡和/或来世的恐惧、冷漠/懒惰和干预。一些额外的主题被收录在“其他”类别中，确定了第十二个主题，即药物的使用，但未进行讨论。这些发现提供了关于直接阻止人们尝试自杀的近端保护因素的广泛概述。他们还说明了 Reddit 作为平台的潜力，通过该平台可以更好地了解可能有助于识别和支持处于自杀危机中的人的因素。这种洞察力可能有助于为自杀和处于自杀危机中的人提供干预和预防策略。他们还说明了 Reddit 作为平台的潜力，通过该平台可以更好地了解可能有助于识别和支持处于自杀危机中的人的因素。这种洞察力可能有助于为自杀和处于自杀危机中的人提供干预和预防策略。他们还说明了 Reddit 作为平台的潜力，通过该平台可以更好地了解可能有助于识别和支持处于自杀危机中的人的因素。这种洞察力可能有助于为自杀和处于自杀危机中的人提供干预和预防策略。