The facelessness of the metropolitan society is emerging as a big killer. In Delhi and NCR, nearly 40 cases of suicide have been reported in the last 35 days. The actual number of suicides could be higher with a number of cases going unreported. As psychiatrists point out, lack of social connectivity, face less communication and flawed education system are the trigger points that are fast driving people to suicide. According to them, the mental capability of people is reducing to the level where their mental tolerance fails to cope up with problems. As per figures, 38 persons have committed suicide in Delhi and NCR from April 18 to May 15.Experts said as many as 90per cent of suicides were the out come of depression and psychiatric disorder. This assumes significance in wake of the recent suicide committed by Amity University student Dana Sangma, the niece of Meghalaya CM, who went into depression after she was allegedly caught cheating in examination hall. Even academicians associated with human psychology and behavioural science feel the incidents of suicide are going up as the societal norm of togetherness was on the decline. According to reports, failure in studies, family disputes, poverty and illness were behind the majority of suicides. Noted psychiatrist Dr SamirParikh counts suicide among the top 10 killers in the world. As he puts it, psychiatric disorders are the reason for 90%of the suicides and that the rate of suicide was growing every decade. “Despite development of the society we have not been
able to give collective support to the deprived and to the people in crisis. It is, therefore, helplessness and hopelessness that drives people to commit suicide,” Parikh said. He, however, said place of living and lifestyle have lesser impact on the victims of suicide as job, relationship and monetary issues were the triggers in life. Figures suggest that 19,828persons committed suicide following family problem in 2010
while the figure stood at 18,441in 2009. On the other hand, prolonged illness has emerged as the
second biggest factor accounting to 18,532 suicides in 2010 and17,387 cases the previous year. Similarly, Dr Sudhir Gupta of forensic department in AIIMS said the incidents of suicide could not be related to criminal intent and that they were solely dependent on the mental ability and capability of the victims to cope up with their problems. He said the cause of suicide varied from case to case, depression
was found to the reason behind most deaths. He cited the example of Defense Ministry official Yashkar Sinha Hudco Place in Delhi who allegedly murdered his wife over a dispute triggered by a financial crisis before setting himself ablaze. Experts said age was also nota factor as young people as well as old were driven to take the extreme step. They said children spend increasing time on television and internet and spend lesser time with family. “The impact of this we have already started feeling. The older population is also having a higher rate of depression and suicide and the stress due to loneliness is very significant in them. One of the factors behind them is the fact that the working generation is not able to invest time into family,”
said Naveen Kumar,Associate Professor in Department of Psychology in DU.Kumar blamed the existing educational system for the increasing level of frustration.“The teachers are not motivated to connect to students. The degree-based education system does not have a mechanism to
address the problems of the students but instead it is guided by commercial dynamics. Even the
examination system has become an industry of manufacturing stress,” he said, adding that facing examination at every stage of life had the potential to drive one into depression.“People in metropolitan cities are becoming status centric and this is leading to a gradual decrease in social connectivity,” he maintained.
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