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| Suicidal tendencies hit Valley | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar | Sept 18
Suicide rates in Kashmir are surging as 25cases of suicides and attempted suicide are reported every week at SMHS Hospital in Srinagar.
Reports say that suicides in Kashmir are more common among females, while males use deadly methods to attempt suicide. A research study by noted Psychiatrist Dr Arshid Hussain and a team of doctors reveals that females in higher age group show greater tendency of committing suicide, while as males who make successful attempts on their lives fall in the age group of 25 to 34 years.
The report further states that violent methods of suicide like cutting throats is a new phenomenon in Kashmir but such tendencies are predominantly among people with history of schizophrenia and severe depression. Among Para-suicide cases 73% reported depressive disorder.
Furthermore it has been observed that suicide victims mostly consume drugs like benzodiazepines, tricycle antidepressants and phosphorous compounds. Among mental illnesses, depression is the common cause of suicide. Majority of the suicide patients suffer from extreme depression that goes often undiagnosed and untreated.
According to Dr Hussain 58% of suicide patients never receive psychiatric help. "Psycho-social factors like traumatic stress, poverty, unemployment were found strongly associated with males who made successful attempts of suicide," he said.
The study says that domestic violence and multiple-trauma are the biggest contributing factors toward suicides by females. Moreover, people addicted to alcohol, cannabis and tobacco are also prone to commit suicide, the study added. The study blames the present turmoil for "catalyzing" these tendencies in valleyites and attributes the rise in suicides to it though conceding there are other factors responsible as well.
The research study, Women and Children under the Armed Conflict, conducted by Educationist Dr A.G Madhosh for the National Institute of Public and Cooperation and Child development revealed that 80% of widows have higher tendencies of committing suicide especially owing to lose of only breadwinner and family breakups. |
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