Mental health and suicide prevention helplines, counselling centres in India | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Mental health and suicide prevention helplines, counselling centres in India | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Updated: September 10, 2019 2:19:21 pm

Mental health and suicide prevention helplines, counselling centres in India

Suicide prevention features in one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Among men, suicide was second only to road injury and was on the third position among females. (Source: Getty Images/Thinkstock)

Recently a retired Air Force personnel committed suicide at a hotel in Allahabad and left a suicide note addressed to Narendra Modi. In his note, he blamed the economic conditions for his death and ‘P Chidambaram for the slowdown’. Not long ago, VG Siddhartha, the owner of Cafe Coffee Day went missing and was later found to have committed suicide. Though these are recent examples, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest report, India has the highest suicide rate in the South-East Asian region.