Relatives of a person who has committed suicide must be very carefully monitored and should be counselled appropriately. Unfortunately, a suicide can sometimes be followed by the suicide of another family member. In such cases, the second person will often not show any signs of depression. Some of these people will be the life and soul of the party in order to cover up how they really feel and when they take their lives, it comes as a shock to their relatives and friends. In the condition of manic depressive psychosis, during the depressed phase a person normally shows few signs of motivation to commit suicide. However, when the person is coming out of the depressed phase and moving into the manic phase, suicide will often occur.