Suicide prevention needs care, nuance
1 year, 11 months ago

Suicide prevention needs care, nuance

Hindustan Times  

The shocking death of a 20-year-old actor by suicide has unleashed a wave of unverified propaganda and speculation, led to the arrest of the woman’s 28-year-old former partner on charges of abetment of suicide, and caused renewed conversation on mental health and suicide. But the blunt force of law enforcement is a poor deterrent for suicide, depression and mental health problems. The government last month rolled out a national suicide prevention strategy that hopes to establish reliant surveillance mechanisms for suicide prevention, district programmes at the grassroots level and focus on vulnerable groups. But the key will be how it’s implemented, just as the better rollout of guidelines on mental health at work and the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, can also help mitigate this scourge.

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Breaking the Silence: The crucial role of mental health awareness
1 week, 3 days ago

Breaking the Silence: The crucial role of mental health awareness

India Today  

Mental health in India is often shrouded in silence and stigma. Driven by personal caregiving experiences, where she and her husband lost family members to mental health and addiction problems, Dr Malik has dedicated her life to transforming mental health care in India. Athena Behavioral Health, under Dr Malik’s leadership, has implemented several innovative approaches to mental health treatment. For …

Rising military suicides: A shared crisis for the US and India demanding urgent action
1 month, 1 week ago

Rising military suicides: A shared crisis for the US and India demanding urgent action

Firstpost  

The escalating crisis of military suicides in the US and India underscores the shared challenges of addressing mental health and reducing stigma among armed forces Suicide among US military service members continues to increase highlighting a distressing trend despite extensive prevention efforts. This committee has since provided recommendations designed to improve mental health resources, reduce stigma and enhance suicide prevention …

69% of students can't recognise suicide warning signs: Survey in 30 colleges
3 months, 1 week ago

69% of students can't recognise suicide warning signs: Survey in 30 colleges

India Today  

A recent survey by Mpower, a mental healthcare initiative under the Aditya Birla Education Trust, has revealed a troubling insight into youth mental health in India. Conducted across 30 colleges, including Indraprastha Engineering College and Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College in Delhi, the survey found that 69% of students could not recognise the tell-tale signs of someone contemplating suicide. A …

Curbing the suicide contagion
3 months, 1 week ago

Curbing the suicide contagion

Hindustan Times  

In 1774, German polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe published his novel “ The Sorrows Of Young Werther ”, a book in which the protagonist takes his own life once he realises that he won’t be able to marry the woman he loves. A young life cut short abruptly is distressing anywhere in the world but an article that appeared …

NIMHANS to host third edition of Mental Health Santhe in Bengaluru
3 months, 1 week ago

NIMHANS to host third edition of Mental Health Santhe in Bengaluru

The Hindu  

To raise awareness about mental health, challenge stigma, and promote support for those affected by mental health issues and suicide prevention, the Department of Mental Health Education in collaboration with other departments in NIMHANS will host the third edition of Mental Health Santhe in Bengaluru on October 15. Organisations working in the area of mental health and suicide prevention interested …

Sneha brings together NGOs to network, interact and offer services
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Sneha brings together NGOs to network, interact and offer services

The Hindu  

Sneha, a non-governmental organisation working on suicide prevention, has brought together around 30 NGOs in the city, to network and interact with each other, as part of World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on September 10, annually. Dr. Lakshmi said suicides rates are higher in the southern states with Tamil Nadu recording over 19,834 suicides in 2022. Though the National Strategy …

World Suicide Prevention Day: Breaking the silence around mental health can save lives
3 months, 2 weeks ago

World Suicide Prevention Day: Breaking the silence around mental health can save lives

Hindustan Times  

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world are affected by the tragedy of suicide and grief of losing our loved ones to this. On Wolrd Suicide Prevention Day, we break the stigma around mental health issues.) The stigma around mental health breaks when discussions related to the topic happen in everyday life. Promoting awareness and education about …

India must focus beyond mental health to prevent suicide, says Lancet study
3 months, 2 weeks ago

India must focus beyond mental health to prevent suicide, says Lancet study

India TV News  

Every year on September 10, we commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day to increase awareness of the need to lessen stigma and promote candid discussions to prevent suicides. To reduce suicide cases in India, where over 170,000 lives are lost to suicide each year, it is crucial to focus on issues other than mental health, according to an expert in a …

Need to treat suicide as a public health problem
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Need to treat suicide as a public health problem

Hindustan Times  

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. However, it is now well-established that risk factors for suicide in developing countries, including India, encompass a range of social issues in addition to mental health disorders. Financial hardship, fractious family relationships, domestic violence, childhood trauma, bullying, negative peer pressure, substance abuse, and lack of access to health care are among the many challenges …

Teaching mental well-being will reduce suicides: experts
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Teaching mental well-being will reduce suicides: experts

The Hindu  

A recent article in the Lancet has once again turned the spotlight on suicide. The aim was to establish effective surveillance mechanisms for suicide within three years and establish psychiatric outpatient departments to provide suicide prevention services through the District Mental Health Programmes in all districts within the next five years. But two years later, nothing has happened,” said Lakshmi …

Gone too soon — the subject of youth suicide in India
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Gone too soon — the subject of youth suicide in India

The Hindu  

Suicide is the tragic and untimely loss of human life, all the more devastating and perplexing because it is a conscious volitional act. Suicide in young people is best understood as multidetermined and the result of interaction between biological, psychological, familial, and social cultural factors. A current review of adolescent suicides in India shows that the most commonly reported risk …

Voluntary task force to help doctors following rise in mental health issues, deaths by suicide
1 year ago

Voluntary task force to help doctors following rise in mental health issues, deaths by suicide

The Hindu  

December 16, 2023 04:52 pm | Updated December 17, 2023 09:45 am IST - NEW DELHI The Federation of All India Medical Association has set up a national mental health task force in response to the alarming rising in mental health issues and deaths by suicide among doctors. The round-the-clock voluntary facility comprises psychologists, psychiatrists, and resident doctors to provide …

Mental Health in India | How does India tackle mental health issues among school children?
1 year, 2 months ago

Mental Health in India | How does India tackle mental health issues among school children?

The Hindu  

As per the National Mental Health Survey conducted in 2015-16, the prevalence of mental disorders among children between ages 13-17 was 7.3% in both genders. As per a report from United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, any mental health programme in schools must include five pillars of support — an enabling learning environment, access to early intervention and mental health …

It is Time to Reboot Mental Health Care - News18
1 year, 2 months ago

It is Time to Reboot Mental Health Care - News18

News 18  

Galloping Mental Illnesses In part I of the trilogy on the eve of World Mental Health Day, I began with the consensus estimate that 1 in 7 Indians are, at any point in time, suffering from one or the other mental illnesses with humungous personal, familial, social and national consequences and a growing economic cost to the economy of India …

With 12 Deaths Per Month, India Losing More CAPF Personnel to Suicides Than in Action - News18
1 year, 2 months ago

With 12 Deaths Per Month, India Losing More CAPF Personnel to Suicides Than in Action - News18

News 18  

As many as 12 jawans of the Central Armed Police Forces are dying by suicide per month on an average — much more than those being killed in action — Ministry of Home Affairs data analysed by News18 shows. Since January 2020, at least 507 suicide cases have been reported in the CAPFs, ministry data up to July 2023 shows …

What’s killing our students? Understanding the Causes of Student Suicides
1 year, 3 months ago

What’s killing our students? Understanding the Causes of Student Suicides

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 21, 2023 11:00 IST - 13 MINS READ Arjun Gupta, 25, had a troubled adolescence. Adolescents could also have issues relating to sexual identity and orientation.” According to Arjun Kapoor, a research fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, half of India’s suicides are due to mental health issues while “the remaining 50 per …

Need to set up a dedicated suicide prevention helpline in Andhra Pradesh, says psychiatrist
1 year, 3 months ago

Need to set up a dedicated suicide prevention helpline in Andhra Pradesh, says psychiatrist

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation puts suicide as the fourth leading cause of death among 15 to 29-year-olds across the globe. Hence, it is important that we have enough suicide prevention helplines to reach out to people during the crisis. “While Tamil Nadu has Sneha and Telangana has Roshini, such a dedicated centre, where people are given emotional aid, is not …

From Ghana to Guyana, hope mounts in fight against suicide criminalisation
1 year, 3 months ago

From Ghana to Guyana, hope mounts in fight against suicide criminalisation

Al Jazeera  

Nearly 2,000 people die by suicide every day. The World Health Organization and the International Association for Suicide Prevention mark September 10 as World Suicide Prevention Day, to help end the stigma surrounding suicide. A lot of the countries where attempting suicide is still illegal in civil law are former British colonies, with laws based on outdated British penal legislation. …

Three years into pandemic, Himachal reports 14% decline in suicide cases
1 year, 8 months ago

Three years into pandemic, Himachal reports 14% decline in suicide cases

The Hindu  

The spurt in the number of suicides witnessed in the immediate wake of the COVID pandemic due to job loss, poor health, and uncertainty about the future, has relented a little, declining by 14% from 889 in 2021 to 758 in 2022. As per the data procured from the police department, 709 persons died by suicide in 2019 with the …

Using a global lens to situate suicide prevention in India
1 year, 10 months ago

Using a global lens to situate suicide prevention in India

New Indian Express  

The magnitude of the suicide crisis in India is deeply distressing. To put it in perspective, the National Crime Records Bureau -- the only source of data on suicide mortality in the country-- reported 164,033 deaths by suicides in 2021 – a 7.2% increase from the previous year. Most recent reports from the World Health Organization estimate that in 2019, …

First Sushant Singh Rajput and now Tunisha Sharma – How Irresponsible has Indian Media Become? - News18
1 year, 11 months ago

First Sushant Singh Rajput and now Tunisha Sharma – How Irresponsible has Indian Media Become? - News18

News 18  

The death of Tunisha Sharma by suicide has raised a hornet’s nest. Many TV channels have gone berserk discussing why, where, how and when of the sad event and have converted it into a soap opera by discussing minute details of this unnatural demise, flouting the media guidelines of reporting suicide by the World Health Organisation and endorsed by the …

Blaming technology for deaths by suicide is misguided
2 years, 2 months ago

Blaming technology for deaths by suicide is misguided

The Hindu  

Every year, when the National Crime Records Bureau releases statistics on deaths by suicide in India, the demand to address the issue grows louder. It is not the case that technology has no role to play in adverse mental health conditions or related cases of suicide; the issue is the sensational and misdirected analysis of the causes of suicides. These …

Make Mental Health a Global Priority; What Action India Can Take at Policy & Social Levels
2 years, 2 months ago

Make Mental Health a Global Priority; What Action India Can Take at Policy & Social Levels

News 18  

Across continents, every year, October 10 is observed as World Mental Health Day, with the goal to raise awareness about mental health and illness. This year’s theme for mental health, announced by the World Federation for Mental Health, is ‘Make mental health for all a global priority’. The first element is perhaps that of ‘priority.’ There is an urgent need …

Suicide is a Preventable Public Health Catastrophe; Together We Can Tame It - News18
2 years, 3 months ago

Suicide is a Preventable Public Health Catastrophe; Together We Can Tame It - News18

News 18  

Yesterday was the World Suicide Prevention Day. Also, against the earlier trend of one Indian dying by suicide every 4 minutes, as per 2021 NCRB data, the incidence of suicide has exacerbated to “one suicide death every three minutes”. The trend of abnormally high suicides in relatively lower age group in India, not only changes “our population dividend from boon …

World Suicide Prevention Day: Here’s what we can do to save a life
2 years, 3 months ago

World Suicide Prevention Day: Here’s what we can do to save a life

Hindustan Times  

World Suicide Prevention Day was observed across the globe on Saturday as welfare organisations made an attempt to raise awareness of the issue and spread the message of hope for all. WHO said, for every suicide, there are likely 20 other people making a suicide attempt and many more have serious thoughts of suicide. As part of the campaign on …

How to identify and prevent suicide in India
2 years, 3 months ago

How to identify and prevent suicide in India

Live Mint  

The numbers speak for themselves: 1,64,033 Indians died by suicide in 2021, with the national suicide rate being 12, the highest rate since 196, according to NCRB data. Join support groups Join a support group so that you can learn how to deal with suicidal thoughts and realise that you have many other options in life except taking your own …

A strict no to sensationalising, repetition of suicide stories, say psychiatrists
2 years, 4 months ago

A strict no to sensationalising, repetition of suicide stories, say psychiatrists

The Hindu  

Sensationalising death by suicide and its repeated projections in the media have become a cause for concern for psychiatrists. “The fact is that whenever suicides are sensationalised and repeatedly projected, we know that there is an increase in suicides particularly in the young and vulnerable, who identify with the person or with the situation,” said Lakshmi Vijayakumar, psychiatrist and founder …

Understanding India's Suicide Crisis and The Interventions That Can Help
2 years, 9 months ago

Understanding India's Suicide Crisis and The Interventions That Can Help

The Quint  

India's suicide crisis is often discussed in bursts of news coverage, often within boxes of celebrity suicide, student suicide or farmer suicides. The crisis though, especially in India, sits outside these boxes and is very much a consequence of systemic socio-economic-political failure, and not one that can be viewed only from the lens of mental illness. A new book Life …

Beyond COVID: Shift to Education Models That Focus on Mental Health of Kids, Not Marks
2 years, 11 months ago

Beyond COVID: Shift to Education Models That Focus on Mental Health of Kids, Not Marks

News 18  

In November 2021, the National Crime Records Bureau in its annual report shed light on an alarming statistic –31 children committed suicide in India every day in 2020. Therefore, mental health consciousness must be generated among children from an early age through pedagogies that focus on social and emotional well-being and not just academics and marks. Learning through such models, …

With Increase in Suicides, Building Mental Health Infra a Must to Fight COVID Blues
3 years, 1 month ago

With Increase in Suicides, Building Mental Health Infra a Must to Fight COVID Blues

News 18  

With the release of the 2020 National Crime Records Bureau report on suicides, the question that comes to the fore is why does the data come under the ministry of home affairs. So, the common factor that emerges is that family mental health interventions mostly among the poor, less educated, and married men and women are a must. The Ministry …

Mind the Gap: How NGOs Have Been Supporting the Fractured Indian Mental Health Infrastructure
3 years, 2 months ago

Mind the Gap: How NGOs Have Been Supporting the Fractured Indian Mental Health Infrastructure

News 18  

“Changing cities, beginning a new life triggered anxiety and panic attacks in me, the reasons were unknown until I took professional help and came to know how deep-rooted my thoughts and actions were,” said 25-year-old Ankita, a working woman, who went to New Delhi- based Sanjeevani Society for Mental Health — an NGO functioning since 1976, providing free counselling sessions. …

'Education, Communication, Conversation': This 26-Yr-Old is Changing Mental Health Space in Urban India
3 years, 2 months ago

'Education, Communication, Conversation': This 26-Yr-Old is Changing Mental Health Space in Urban India

News 18  

Millennials as a generation have always been known for welcoming cultural and societal changes, in layman’s language the “woke” generation. While today’s sedulous youth is busy carving their ways out in bustling cities and occupied lives, caring for their mental health was pushed on the back burner until the alarming Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. There comes a moment in …

Doctors call for an effective national suicide prevention plan
4 years, 2 months ago

Doctors call for an effective national suicide prevention plan

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: As the world celebrates the mental health day today amidst COVID19 pandemic which has been taking a heavy toll on normal life across the spectrum, the country still lacks an effective National Suicide Prevention Plan as the suicide cases continues to rise. So there must be centrally driven effective suicide prevention plan in association with state governments, NGOs and …

Japan's 4th Celeb Suicide in Covid-19 Has Finally Urged Them Talk About Mental Health. India, Take Note?
4 years, 2 months ago

Japan's 4th Celeb Suicide in Covid-19 Has Finally Urged Them Talk About Mental Health. India, Take Note?

News 18  

The Japanese government is urging people to come forth with mental health issues after yet another celebrity passed away in a suspected case of suicide. Japan has seen an alarming rise in cases of death by suicide among celebrities with “Miss Sherlock” star Yuko Takeuchi, becoming the fourth Japanese celebrity to succumb to it. The series of apparent suicides has …

Average 381 Suicides Daily in India in 2019; 50% Cases from Just 5 States: NCRB Data
4 years, 3 months ago

Average 381 Suicides Daily in India in 2019; 50% Cases from Just 5 States: NCRB Data

News 18  

India reported an average 381 deaths by suicide daily in 2019, totalling 1,39,123 fatalities over the year, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau data. A 3.4 per cent increase was observed in suicides during 2019 as compared to 2018 and 2017, the data showed. Family problems were behind 32.4 per cent of suicides, marriage-related problems and illness together …

'Activate Anti-Suicide Helpline Within 3 Weeks', HP HC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Effective Steps To Prevent The Increasing Number Of Suicide Cases During Lockdown [Read Order]
4 years, 3 months ago

'Activate Anti-Suicide Helpline Within 3 Weeks', HP HC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Effective Steps To Prevent The Increasing Number Of Suicide Cases During Lockdown [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday directed the State Government to set up/activate the anti-suicide helpline number within three weeks. The court also directed for publication of the said helpline number in all English and Hindi newspapers through The background of the PIL The petitioner, through his plea, submitted before the court that there has been rise in number …

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