History Main / SuicideWatch

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* ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]": Fearing one of the college students is suicidally depressed, the study group decides to intervene by inviting him to play his favourite game ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' with them.
* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': In season 3, after Rebecca tries to overdose on anti-depressants, her group of friends stay in her house for a while to give her support and make sure that she is okay.
* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' has a suspect sent to Rikers (a correctional facility) and put on suicide watch. He still manages to kill himself.
-->'''Briscoe''': I specifically asked for him to be put on suicide watch. Apparently, here at Rikers, they watch you commit suicide.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' sees the titular detective being put on formal suicide watch after a case shatters his confidence in his abilities.
* In one episode of ''Series/Reno911'', Trudy Wiegel gets put on suicide watch after accidentally asphyxiating herself in her car. With everyone else forced to be nice to her for a change, she milks the situation for everything it's worth.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', the B-plot of "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS02E1018MilesOut 18 Miles Out]]" has Beth become suicidally depressed and try to get a knife to slice her wrist. Lori and Maggie watch her and try to talk her out of it, but Andrea believes Beth should have the right to choose how to live and when it is her turn to watch her she leaves her alone so she can attempt suicide if she wants. Beth manages to cut her wrist but fails to kill herself and [[HappilyFailedSuicide immediately regrets it]], letting Lori and Maggie help her, and Lori and Maggie [[WhatTheHellHero call out Andrea]] for letting Beth make the attempt with Maggie banning her from setting foot in her house ever again.
* ''Series/TheWire'': After Officer Prezbylewski [[FriendOrFoe accidentally shoots another police officer]] while chasing a suspect in the projects, his superior Lt. Daniels comes to visit a despondent Prez as the rest of the department heads are discussing what to do next. After Daniels leaves the room, he tells Deputy Rawls to send somebody home with Prez to make sure he doesn't kill himself out of guilt.
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In some jurisdictions, suicidal people can be detained in mental hospitals until their urges are either finished, or the patient is undergoing treatment. They might be subjected to an involuntary psychiatric hold, where it's the authorities who are doing the guarding. Alternately, the authorities have their hands on a particularly crooked individual [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled who would rather avoid trial by any means necessary]], and need to keep him around to ensure he testifies.

* ''FanFic/TheFifthAct'': After the attempted murder-suicide and finding out the truth about Cloud, the First Class Soldiers place Cloud on a suicide watch. They deliberately keep Cloud's [[NoSell Ribbon]] away from him so they could put him to [[StandardStatusEffects Sleep or Paralyze]] him if Cloud looks to inflict harm.

* ''A Young Doctor's Notebook'', "The Blizzard" by Mikhail Bulgakov: The young doctor and narrator of the short story is called to a seriously injured young woman. Her new fiancé wanted to celebrate their betrothal ny taking her for a sleigh ride. Their horse tore off and she hit her forehead on the gatepost. It's said that the young man lost his senses and is being followed so that he doesn't hang himself.

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': in the prequels, Belgarath writes that after learning of Poledra's death, he had to be chained to a bed, with his fellow sorcerers taking turns jamming his magic, so he wouldn't commit suicide.

* Downplayed in ''Manga/AnoKoNiKissToShirayuriWo'', when Kurosawa runs into Shiramine who is obviously in considerable distress after a difficult talk with her overly demanding parents. When Shiramine then declares that she is gonna skip school for the first time in her life to go "to the sea", Kurosawa starts quietly following her at a short distance, despite Shiramine's insistence that she not be followed. It turns out that Shiramine didn't really have any suicidal thoughts -- she just was so hurt by her mother's words that she needed to get away for a night, and afterwards, she thanks Kurosawa for not leaving her alone.