In recent years, many cases have come into existence in which mentally ill persons have either committed suicide else have murdered their own near and dear ones. Noting this, several questions have been arising that when mental illness ends into such tragedy, why no one saw it coming. Why before discharging the patients from a psychiatric hospital, the doctors or other staff is not able to predict that they would take such harsh actions in their coming life?

But as queried from some Sydney psychiatrists and other international colleagues, it has been found that the idea of predicting such events is next to impossible in maximum cases. However, there are some patients who have such a past or a history that such things can be expected to re-happen in their life again but such patients are very minimal.

According to a study released by a clinical senior lecturer at the University of NSW, Dr Matthew Large also it has been revealed out that there does not exist any factor or combination of factors, with the help of which this could be clearly predicted that which patients would commit suicide in the year after they are released from a psychiatric hospital.