Suicide and psychiatry: the suicidal person is more likely to be ill or rather healthy. Reflections on the psychiatric qualification of suicide, awareness of actions and the truth of intentions

The results of the senior medical students’ answers the question: "Does a person who commits suicide necessarily suffer from any kind of mental disorder?" served as a starting point to this work. The number of positive responses tended to reach 100%. Suicidal behavior for many people is a frightening, odious and mysterious topic, which in no way is able to characterize a mentally healthy person. The purpose of the work is to assess the presence of a psychiatric or narcological disorder (established or suspected) and its possible impact on suicide (or attempt) by analyzing fairly common clinical cases in practice.