Bengaluru: More than 12,500 students died by suicide in the country in a pandemic-hit 2020 with a level of more than 34 days, with many countries reported more than one death every day.
According to the latest suicide data, the number of deaths like that last year saw an increase of more than 21% compared to 2019.
Data analysis since 1995 showed that India lost more than 1.8 lakh students to commit suicide, where the most recorded in 2020, a year Which has a lower inspection pressure compared to other years considering that most students are promoted without exams.
Of the 12,526 suicide students in 2020, almost 53% or 6,598 came from only six states – Maharashtra, Odisha, MP, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Karnataka – while all states and union territories together reported 5,928 deaths.
Analyzing the trends for many years shows that between 1995 and 1999, suicide students accounted for more than 5.2% of all average suicides.
‘Academic challenges can also be triggers showing that between 1995 and 1999, suicide students accounted for more than 5.2% of all suicides, with 1995 (6.6%) into the worst year; During 2000-2009, only one year saw suicide students for more than 5%.
During 2010-2014, the last two years saw such cases forming more than 6% and every year after that had seen these cases take into account more than 6%.
While suicide of students accounted for 7.4% of the total suicide of 1.3 lakh in 2019, they contributed 8.2% of the total suicide of 1.5 lakh in 2020.
emphasizing the need for detailed studies, psychiatrists and experts told Ti To say that stress or anxiety finally causes death to be triggered by various problems, including covid, unexpected change in circumstances – socially, economical and in family – and academic challenges arising from new learning methods.
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John Vijay Sagar, Professor and Hod, Psychiatry of Children and Youth, Nimhans, said: “Suicida did not occur suddenly.
In most of these cases, students will face previous problems too.
The fact that the situation has never happened before, a pandemic What is brought will mean they have to overcome additional pressure and anxiety.
Most children / students spend time at home, except for families where parents can also work from home.
This means that their coping mechanism will be affected by the ventilation system, such as There are no friends and schools and colleges.
“He added that the family conflict whose students would not notice will come forward with everyone living at home.
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Ms Dharmendra, a Psychiatric Consultant, Hospital Manasa Neuropsikiatri, said: “Students are limited to homes because of the kuncian which causes sudden changes in their routine.
The ability to overcome changes determines how they develop in their study because not everyone will be able to learn Online.
I have seen students whose performance has declined …
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