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Into The Light Indonesia is a youth-based community with the focus as a center of advocacy, research, and education related to suicide prevention and mental health issues in Indonesia. The community was founded by Benny Prawira in 2013 and established with the mission to promote awareness of suicide prevention, especially in Indonesia.
Psychiatry, surgery, or emergency medicine if serious injuries occur. Self-harm is intentional conduct that is considered harmful to oneself. This is most commonly regarded as direct injury of one's own skin tissues usually without a suicidal intention. [1] [2] [3] Other terms such as cutting, self-injury, and self-mutilation have been used for ...
COVID-19 has increased the risk of psychiatric disorders, chronic trauma, and stress, all of which can lead to suicide and suicidal behavior. According to studies conducted in China, the outbreak has had a significant impact on mental health, with an increase in health anxiety, acute stress reactions, adjustment disorders, depression, panic ...
Suicide prevention is a collection of efforts to reduce the risk of suicide. [ 1 ] Suicide is often preventable, [ 2 ] and the efforts to prevent it may occur at the individual, relationship, community, and society level. [ 1 ]
A 2020 study of Barcelona women compared their anxiety and depression levels during the initial days of lockdown and then 5 weeks after lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results showed that their anxiety levels went from 8.5% to 17.6% and their depression levels went from 7.7% to 22.5%.
Suicidal ideation, or suicidal thoughts, is the thought process of having ideas, or ruminations about the possibility of completing suicide. [ 1] It is not a diagnosis but is a symptom of some mental disorders, use of certain psychoactive drugs, and can also occur in response to adverse life events without the presence of a mental disorder.
With 4% of the world's population, the US had 44% of global gun suicides in 2019, and the highest rate per capita. [ 211] Approximately 1.4% of people die by suicide, a mortality rate of 11.6 per 100,000 persons per year. [ 6][ 21] Suicide resulted in 842,000 deaths in 2013 up from 712,000 deaths in 1990. [ 18]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 14-year-old boy dressed in military clothing was arrested after police alleged he stabbed a 22-year-old student in the neck Tuesday at the University of Sydney. The ...