The economic recession and depression are well known to depression and suicide risk. There are stories of traders, jumped from a window after the stock market crash in 1929.
An unknown number of people who commit suicide as a result of economic recession and financial crisis are not individuals with pre-existing mental illnesses. They are commonly men middle age on the verge of bankruptcy and debt.
About sixty percent of suicides in 2006 (worldwide) State in the Asia-Pacific region. In Japan, Sri Lanka and some parts of China reports that more than 20 of the 100 000 citizens kill themselves each year. More than twice as much in Australia and New Zealand.
It is also relatively higher in places where it is culturally accepted as in Japan, and India. When they were a few countries in Asia-Pacific, the economic crisis in the mid-1990s, he was a relative increase in the number of suicides among middle-aged men. It was said that this group is the most vulnerable groups of the economic recession.
In addition to economic factors as a reason to commit suicide is also something to do with Asian values in terms of shame and humiliation, is not able to provide for the family.
Asian culture loss of face or shame is more seriously than it is in Western culture. In Japan, the Samurai, which his own life, to avoid the shame of defeat. Call this tradition of Hara-Kiri. There are some corporate executives, who did the tradition of Hara-Kiri in the run-up to the economic downturn. A section of the forest on Mount Fuji is called "les suicide" due to the dozens of corpses, retrieved from it each year.
The economic recession has had a great influence on young people and children, poverty and financial difficulties pushed's suicide. In Israel in 2003, 15 years old he killed himself, to reduce their electricity. The letter already mentioned, that does not want to be a burden for his mother, who raised him as a single mother.
In the Philippines back in 2007, 11-year-old girl ended her life of poverty. In her letter she wished that her parents will have a stable job and her siblings could go to school regularly. This incident drew attention to poverty programmes, the Government has in the country.
Governments and relevant institutions worldwide are taking steps to address this problem.
An example would be the steps carried out by the Japanese Government. Some of the new measures, changes in the formula bar work enable greater flexibility and the financing of early detection and treatment programmes.
The Japanese Government also provide better mental health counselling centre at the workplace, the community psychiatrists and public network campaign to raise awareness of the problem. Telephone hotline services are also readily available. There is new software, developed for filtering a Web page, which support the Group suicide.
Australia, in the Asia-Pacific, is the first country to initiate prevention Web application suicide groups.
In addition to the efforts of the Government are personal ways to help a suicidal person:
1. the person, suicide carries a burden that I can't handle. Listening is important.
2. be the non-Jewish understanding, patient, calm and understanding.
3. avoid trying to offer rapid solutions by belittling his feelings.
4. Trading with the threat of suicide is stressful. Seek assistance on the decompression of the later.
5. If the personal effort fails, don't blame yourself, it's his choice. It is reasonable to ask for grief counseling and suicide survivor support groups.
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