Experts reveal that majority of suicides can be prevented on timely intervention, any person with suicidal tendency can be easily convinced through dialogue and timely counselling.
"Suicidal tendency is a mental illness - it can be prevented through timely intervention." Any person with the tendency can be easily identified. Nowadays many communicate it through social networking site or share it with friends and relatives that they are in emotional turmoil.
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Suicide is an act of ending one''s own life and it usually results from emotional isolations and inability to adjust and cope with one''s environment.
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"At these situation the kith and kin friends should intervene and convince them," said Sunil Mittal, director, Cosmos Institute of Mental Health and Behaviourial Sciences (CIMBS).
"Only when we talk about suicide and its causes that we can build an atmosphere of hope and resilience at home and the community to help prevent suicide," he added.
![Final Wish of Suicide Victim in China Denied]( "Final Wish of Suicide Victim in China Denied")
A man who texted police in China to donate his body and organs to science before hanging himself was denied his final wish because he had not applied in advance, official media said Wednesday.
On the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on Sep 10, CIMBS launched a year long public campaign "Let's Talk to Prevent Suicide".
Giving an example, psychiatrists informed that had actress Jiah Khan, who committed suicide recently, hinted about her suicidal tendency on a social networking site, timely help could have saved her.
"Individuals with poor problem solving skills, impulsivity, interpersonal relationships have a high risk of deliberate self harm and suicide," said clinical psychologist Mitalli Srivastava.
"Identifying and helping those attempting suicide can bring down suicidal rates, motives can vary early identification and counselling will help to reduce the suicide rates," said CIMBS co-ordinator Sameer Kalani.
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the majority of people committing suicide are in the age of 15 to 49 years.As per NCRB statistics, the last year alone a total of 135,445 people committed suicide, which ranges to 371 suicides per day or one suicide every four minutes.
Source: IANS
Final Wish of Suicide Victim in China Denied
A man who texted police in China to donate his body and organs to science before hanging himself was denied his final wish because he had not applied in advance, official media said Wednesday.
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On the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on Sep 10, CIMBS launched a year long public campaign "Let's Talk to Prevent Suicide".
Giving an example, psychiatrists informed that had actress Jiah Khan, who committed suicide recently, hinted about her suicidal tendency on a social networking site, timely help could have saved her.
"Individuals with poor problem solving skills, impulsivity, interpersonal relationships have a high risk of deliberate self harm and suicide," said clinical psychologist Mitalli Srivastava.
"Identifying and helping those attempting suicide can bring down suicidal rates, motives can vary early identification and counselling will help to reduce the suicide rates," said CIMBS co-ordinator Sameer Kalani.
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the majority of people committing suicide are in the age of 15 to 49 years.As per NCRB statistics, the last year alone a total of 135,445 people committed suicide, which ranges to 371 suicides per day or one suicide every four minutes.
Source: IANS
Biomarkers for Possible Blood Test to Predict Suicide Risk Discovered
RNA biomarkers in blood that may help identify who is at risk for committing suicide have been discovered by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers.
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