Suicide

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SUICIDE:

Suicide is the most happening incidents in young adults life who are ending their own lives because of the problems that they were encountering in every day life so lets see in this post an overview of suicide and the reasons why they are happening.

Now lets see the definition of suicide so that we can get a clarity what suicide is .

Suicide:

"Suicide is the death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die".

A suicide attempt is when someone harms themselves with the intent to end their life.

 

Facts about suicide:

✒ Close to 8,00,000 people die due to suicide every year.

✒ Suicide is the third leading cause of death in 15-19 year-olds.

✒ 79% of global suicides occur in low and middle income countries.

✒ Ingestion of pesticide, hanging and firearms are among the most common methods of suicide globally.

These are the few facts provided about suicides by world health organization and "September 10" is declared as "world suicide prevention day".

 

☑ To prevent suicides no.of countries with national suicide prevention strategies has increased,despite progress, one person still dies every 40 seconds from suicide.

☑ Suicide was the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years, after road injury.

☑ Among teenagers aged 15-19 years, suicide was the leading cause of death among girls (after maternal conditions) and the third leading cause of death in boys (after road injury and inter personal violence).

Reasons for commiting suicides:

Mental Illness:

Depression can make people feel great emotional pain and loss of hope making them unable to see another way to relieve(release) the pain other than ending their own life.

Substance use and impulsivity:

Drugs and alcohol can also influence a person who is feeling suicidal making them more impulsive and likely to act upon their urges than they work be while sober.

 

 

Loss (or) fear of loss:

A person may decide to take their own life when facing a loss like academic failure, financial problems, end of a relationship.

Hopelessness:

 When people feel they have lost all hope and don't feel able to change that it can over shadow all of the good things in their life, making suicide
seem like viable option.

Feeling like a burden to others:

A person with chronic pain or terminal illness can also feel like a burden to others. In fact many people who decide to commit suicide often state that their loved ones or the world in general, would be better off without them.

 

Note:

As per IPC section 309 states that who ever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the commission of such offense shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine or with both.

Ways to avoid Suicide :

National suicide prevention life line:

If you are having suicidal thoughts contact 1-800-273-TALK(8255). The National suicide prevention life life is a 24- hour , toll free, confidential suicide prevention hotline available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.

✒When you call 1-800-273-TALK(8255) you are connected to the nearest crisis center in a national network of more than 150 that provide crisis counseling and mental health referral day and night.

✒ Translators speaking approximately 150 languages are available.

Try to share your problem:

 When you feel alone or lonely, sad, helplessness and hopelessness try to share with your loved ones. Try to communicate with people try to share your problems so that you may find a best way to solve a problem other than commiting suicide.

 

 

Try to consult a doctor:

Try to consult a doctor and share what you feeling so that they can help you in fixing problems.

Try to seek motivation:

Try to motivate yourself by reading books and watching motivational videos and try to attend inspirational talks so that you can divert your mind from suicidal thoughts and can expect a good diversion from your problems.

and finally life is an offer,one day every one has to die but that is god's responsibility not ours realize value of life and be happy live fully.

this is all about suicides and reasons .Catch you all back in my next post.                             

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