People can die simply because they’ve given up, life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable, according to new research.
People can die simply because they’ve given up, life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable, according to new research.
The study, by Dr John Leach, a senior research fellow in the University of Portsmouth’s Department of Sport and Exercise Science, is the first to describe the clinical markers for ‘give-up-it is’, a term used to describe what is known medically as psychogenic death.
It usually follows a trauma from which a person thinks there is no escape, making death seem like the only rational outcome.
If not arrested, death usually occurs three weeks after the first stage of withdrawal.
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