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Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides
Although police records show that there were 736 cases of attempted suicide from 2001 until May this year in the Kashmir Valley, the picture may be quite different.
The records of just one major hospital in the summer capital Srinagar, the SMHS hospital, show that it admitted 1,124 patients who had attempted suicide in 2004 alone.
"During the last 18 years, more than 13,000 patients of suicide (where a person ended his/her life), para-suicide (where a person made a serious attempt to end his/her life) and deliberate self-harm were admitted in the SMHS hospital," said Arshad Hussain, a consultant psychiatrist at the government medical college.
Hussain blamed depression, schizophrenia and panic disorders for these cases.
"Depression is the fourth common mental disorder in the world at present. Trauma, unemployment, family breakups and cultural breakdowns are the main reasons for depression among the local youth," he pointed out.
Quoting data, he said the ratio of males and females in suicide cases was 3:1, in para suicide it was 1:4 and in deliberate self-harm it was 1:7, indicating that males outdid the females in committing suicides in the valley while more females made attempts to end their lives and deliberately harming themselves.
Interestingly, Hussain said there are just 12 specialist psychiatrists in the entire valley to cope with the problem.
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