Department of Health, SR Gung Tenga Pora Nawab Bazar, Srinagar, 190002, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1192:503-517. doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9721-0_25.
Suicide is a serious public health problem in many countries and has always been a source of apprehension and quest to human mankind, which can be resolved with due diligence. Suicide is a hidden and silent epidemic, with many causative factors. Studying and researching on various causative factors have always been the subject of significance for the researchers. Psychiatric illnesses happen to be the primary reasons for the majority of suicide mortality cases. Not only this, there has been a consistent increase in the no. of cases of mental disorders as well as attempted and completed suicide cases. If one looks at global scenario, an approximate 70,000 people commit suicide, and further alarming is the fact that the rate of suicide attempt cases has gone up to 250% during last 18 years in conflict zones. Poisoning, hanging and self-immolation are some of the common methods to commit suicide. Physical and mental illness, disturbed emotional relationships and economic difficulties were the major reasons for suicide with the predisposed population being women, student and farmers. As per WHO's approximation, there is one suicide every minute and an attempted suicide every third second. It implies that the number of killed due to suicide is greater than that of the ones killed due to the armed conflict.
自杀是许多国家面临的一个严重公共卫生问题，一直是人类关注和探索的话题，可以通过适当的努力加以解决。自杀是一种隐藏的、无声的流行疾病，有许多致病因素。研究和研究各种致病因素一直是研究人员关注的重点。精神疾病恰好是大多数自杀死亡的主要原因。不仅如此，精神障碍的病例以及自杀未遂和自杀的病例数量一直在持续增加。如果从全球范围来看，大约有 7 万人自杀，更令人震惊的是，在过去的 18 年里，冲突地区的自杀未遂率上升了 250%。中毒、上吊和自焚是一些常见的自杀方式。身心疾病、情感关系紊乱和经济困难是自杀的主要原因，自杀的高危人群是妇女、学生和农民。根据世界卫生组织的估计，每一分钟就有一人自杀，每三秒钟就有一人试图自杀。这意味着自杀死亡的人数超过了因武装冲突而死亡的人数。
