According to the Suicide Observatory, at least 1,500 people have committed suicide since 2022.
OR suicidal tendencies is a psychiatric condition that leads to approx 500 deaths per year in Greece, it is thought that the number of suicides and the number of deaths due to recorded incidents is higher.
According to Worldmeter – real-time world statistics (where suicides are recorded live), there have been 738,753 suicides worldwide since the beginning of the year, and the number is increasing every day.
It is noted by the above family psychotherapist – psychopedagogue, researcher at AUTH Medical School, Emilia Axiotidouwho spoke to the APE-MPE on the occasion of September 10 World Suicide Prevention Day.
According to the statistics of Klimaka, a day center for suicide prevention, the 24-hour hotline – 1018/Suicide Intervention Line, In 2023, more than 20,750 calls were received. According to the Suicide Observatory, at least 1,500 people have committed suicide since 2022. During that period, 57 suicides occurred in public transport 163 suicides in places known as hotspots.
“95 percent of events could be predicted”
At the same time, it is noted that there are 20 times more suicide attempts than recorded suicides.
Because 95% of events were predictable A solid record and understanding of the problem is needed to provide effective prevention strategies that will be personalized and aided by modern advances in epigenetics and neuroscience. Dangerousness is particularly difficult to predict because when a person decides to take their own life, they are likely to do so. Of course, people with suicidal ideation and a high tendency to carry it out are the lowest percentage. More ambiguous about suicide and attempted suicide”, notes Ms. Axiotidou.
How can we understand the signs and help someone?
We can recognize some signs if:
– A person talks to us and tells us his thoughts or makes notes that imply death and suicide.
– He is often angry, desperate, angry and violently vengeful.
– Feels trapped in hopeless situations.
– He has impulsive, reckless behavior that he was not used to before.
– He has appetite and sleep disorders.
– He abuses alcohol and drugs.
– Says negative things about himself and feels a strong sense of guilt.
– Have uncontrollable anxiety or sudden mood swings, from intense sadness and worry to joy and relief.
– He threatens to harm himself.
– He has no goals, motivation and dreams for the future.
Of course, everything we have mentioned can occur when a person feels psychological or physical fatigue, and even when he feels strong anxiety, when he does not think about ending his life.
«Therefore, if someone tries to convey to us the intention to kill himself, it should not escape our attention, because half of those who commit this attempt have already told their relatives about it.”, – concludes the expert.
Source: APE – BEE