World Suicide Prevention Day

In 2003, the UN declared September 10th as World Suicide Prevention Day This fact recognizes the international scale of the tragedy, which cannot be kept silent about Psychiatrists and psychologists were the first to voice the problem It is in their daily activities that patients’ suicidal thoughts can be traced and an attempt can be made to reverse them But it became obvious to specialists that the problem could not be solved within the framework of psychological offices This is rather a social catastrophe, because public indifference often leads to suicide Scientist Erwin Ringel first proposed the term “suicide syndrome” back in 1960 Co-authored with Dr Norman Farber, Ringel proposed establishing a date dedicated to combating suicide The United Nations found this proposal extremely important only in 2003 Despite the established date and a number of preventive measures, including numerous helplines and the work of full-time psychologists of various organizations, suicidal phenomena do not disappear into oblivion It must be said that suicide is not always associated with difficult living conditions or age characteristics, as might be expected But still, statistics indicate some patterns: - for prosperous countries, the mortality rate of male suicides is indicative; - for countries with a low standard of living, suicide of adolescents and elderly women is typical Over the past decades, the existing problem has been affected by the negative influence of the media and social Internet networks Teenagers and adults burdened with problems find like-minded people in the vastness of the World Wide Web Where skillful manipulators, experimenting on the human psyche, deliberately bring the situation to the extreme Suicide, in such situations, is presented as a philosophy or even a fashion trend A concerned society cannot ignore such trends, because the total number of voluntary deaths has reached a million annually In the list of countries with a high number of suicides, Russia is in eighth place The championship is held by Western European countries and Japan The lowest numbers are in Islamic and Latin American countries The facts stubbornly insist on the need for universal condemnation of suicide attempts and the return of religious ideas about the value of life Psychologists, teachers, clergy, and government structures can only resist the terrible phenomenon of our time by joining their efforts together