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 of Women and Child Development has at least 15 programmes, including ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ and ‘Swadhar Greh’, which among other things should also have medical-social workers and mental health professionals reach out to women. Need an Army of Mental Health Personnel At present, India has 9,000 psychiatrists, 2,000 psychiatric nurses, 1,000 clinical psychologists and 1,000 psychiatric social workers. Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, who founded the mental health helpline ‘Sneha’ in Chennai, said, “Suicide prevention is not solely or even primarily the domain of mental health practitioners providing interventions for suicidal individuals.

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Breaking the Silence: The crucial role of mental health awareness
1 week, 2 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 …

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 …

Health Matters | Staying on the mental healthcare treadmill
1 year, 3 months ago

Health Matters | Staying on the mental healthcare treadmill

The Hindu  

Many a times in health care or medicine it seems as if we are running on a treadmill — we do the same things again and again, encounter the same diseases, spend energies on combatting them again and again, allocate resources to fuel awareness and prevention programmes. This past week, with World Suicide Prevention Day falling on September 10 and …

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 …

Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner lauds Sneha for work on suicide prevention
1 year, 3 months ago

Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner lauds Sneha for work on suicide prevention

The Hindu  

Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J. Radhakrishnan on Sunday, September 10, 2023 said it is not a right decision to end one’s life as life is precious and life has to be lived to the fullest. Mr. Radhakrishnan, while addressing the participants at the walkathon organised by Sneha, a suicide prevention centre that runs a helpline for those in distress, to …

Sensitization is paramount to prevent suicides, say doctors
1 year, 3 months ago

Sensitization is paramount to prevent suicides, say doctors

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The World Health Organisation has themed this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day, like for the past two years, ‘Creating hope through action’. The latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau indicates a 7.2 per cent rise in suicide cases in India from 11.3in 2020 to 12 in 2021. As per the report, amongst various factors, family problems were …

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 …

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 …

Every 40 seconds someone commits suicide; here’s how one can help contain the silent epidemic
3 years ago

Every 40 seconds someone commits suicide; here’s how one can help contain the silent epidemic

Firstpost  

Studies reveal that suicide is one of the second leading causes of death during the second and third decades of life. Crude suicide rates across world regions Globally, the suicide rates are decreasing, from 12.9 per 100,000 people in the year 2000 to 10.6 per 100,000 people in 2016. Crude suicide rates across countries The crude suicide rates are the …

Saving lives under the long shadow of the pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

Saving lives under the long shadow of the pandemic

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic has ‘impacted populations around the world in multiple ways. There is some evidence that ‘deaths by suicide increased in the United States during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, and among older people in Hong Kong during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic’. New normal, consequences The pandemic’s massive toll on human well-being — in a physical and …

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 …

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