Raj Krishna JhaAIR 8 · CSE 2024 · 165 wordsTheir whole copy
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Youth suicides have increased recently in India; which have been an amalgamation of multitude of factors.
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Social factors
Increasing pressure from society → to perform well → Eg: Kota suicides of students
Discrimination & violence → led to female suicides due to apathy shown by society to gender violence
Competition-focussed society → without care about well being of its members.
Economic factor
(1) Depravation → major cause of young agricultural farmer suicide.
(2) Inequality → leads to resentment → impacts mental health
(3) Hunger → more than 14 crore population is multi-dimensionally poor, with limited food security (NITI Aayog)
(4) lack of mental health infrastructure
Psychological
Mental Health issues → 2 out of 10 youths have mental health issue (Mental health survey)
lack of avenues to share mental health problem → leads to depression & anxiety.
Close · a way forward
The National Mental Health policy recognises the need to better our youth's mental health issue; its implementation effectively remains a challenge.
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