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2015 Report extract – Suicidal behaviours Around 128,000 or 7.5% of young people aged 12-17 years had seriously considered attempting suicide in the previous 12 months. The proportion was over twice as high for females as for males (10.7% and 4.5% respectively). In addition, 4.7% of males and 6.6% of females answered “prefer not to…
Statistics indicate that thousands of teenagers are diagnosed with clinical depression almost every year. However signs for depression are the same as suicide warning signs and thus depression requires your utmost attention in order for the consequent suicide to be prevented. If left ignored depression can become a devastating disease for the affected individual and…
Suicide is classified as a leading cause of death for adolescents within the age group of 10-24 emphasising the extreme situation for today’s youth. In addition to this almost 157,000 teenagers sustain injuries caused by attempted suicide each and every year. Reasons for teenage suicide are many and include bullying, social inequality, academic issues and relationship failures all…
No matter the age, suicide and mental health is a serious issue that affects everyone. I’ve heard many people say different things about it, even calling it victimless. The fact is, however, suicide has many victims, even more than one might imagine. One of the issues we have in fighting suicide is that we put…
Studies conducted in the past indicate that almost 15 per cent of high school students confessed to having considered suicide within their short lives. Young school-going teens can be vulnerable to the concept of suicide in which one death serves as a domino effect and begins others. However experts explain that there are certain procedures…
Latest research indicates that suicide is listed within the top 5 most disturbing issues experienced by the teens of today. With suicide rates alarmingly increasing across Australia, extensive research has been conducted to discover what’s troubling today’s youth, in which the results concluded the top five most popular issues experienced that lead to depression in…
A NEW research centre to be opened on the Sunshine Coast will work to help arrest alarming rates of youth suicide across Australia. The University of the Sunshine Coast has teamed with University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Research Institute to bring together research and clinical practice to improve the care of young people suffering…
MACKAY’S suicide crisis has deepened with three men believed to have taken their own lives in a week. Two of them were in their 20s, the other in his 40s. Last year 33 people died by suicide in Mackay. Grapevine Group chairman Laurence Manning said there simply wasn’t enough awareness about mental health issues. “We…
A COMMUNITY forum on suicide has unanimously voted to form a Townsville prevention network following a growing outcry for more local support services. Wesley LifeForce Suicide Prevention Network hosted the public meeting in Vincent on Tuesday at the Mental Illness Fellowship North Queensland. It was held after national advocacy group Wesley Mission determined the city…
CAIRNS suicide prevention campaigners are calling for change on how suicide data is recorded among youth. It comes as a new report shows an increase in youth suicide rates since 2004. Machans Beach mother Ruth Crouch, whose son Declan took his own life two years ago, said deaths by suicide for those under 15 were…
Griffith University on the Gold Coast is conducting a study on behalf of Beyond Blue. It was prompted by documented high rates of non-fatal suicide attempts amongst LGBTI people and is investigating if they constitute a unique risk-group. AISRAP researcher Dr Delaney Skerrett says it’s the first time a study has been done on fatal…
Study results published by NY Daily News show that attempted suicides have risen from 6.3% to 7.8%. Teen suicide is now a growing problem in today’s society. There are suggestions that there is a strong link between bullying and suicide. Perhaps in the past many parents have viewed ‘bullying’ as part of being a kid…
Workplace redundancies contribute to suicide: Redundancies in the mining industry and now Masters closing its doors – these are concerning events. The World Health Organisation estimates that in a company of 1,000 employees, one worker will die by suicide every ten years. For every employee who dies by suicide, another 10–20 will make a suicide…
Is it true?…only a mental health professional can help someone who is thinking about suicide? The stats tell us that it is usually the non professional who encounters someone who is thinking suicide before they engage with a professional, such as a counsellor, psychologist, or mental health worker. This also tells us that if…
I used to think that depression and suicide were things that happened to other people, that the way I approached my life somehow prevented me from becoming a victim of mental illness. I realized just how incorrect that assumption was when my own life was turned upside down by major depression. I first noticed that…
Current knowledge about the risk factors and warning signs of teen suicide comes from clinical sources and “psychological autopsy” studies of youth who have completed suicide. Researchers interview the family members, friends, school staff, and other significant people who know the deceased teen and try to discover the factors that may have contributed to their…
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