Since the outbreak of COVID-19 Thais face serious mental health problems that erupted in the form of domestic violence leading to "suicide", appearing in the news on the media more frequent daily for the past two years.
reflect that
"Thai people have higher stress" in line with the data.
"Department of Mental Health" in organizing activities
“World Suicide Prevention Day 2022”
has released information from hotline 1323 from October 2021 to August 2022, found that 1,554 service recipients had suicidal thoughts, on average, contemplating suicide. 141 deaths per month
Mental
health problems leading to this suicide
Provide information about the COVID-19 outbreak
As a result, the rate of successful suicide of Thai people in 2021 is at 7.38 per 100,000 population, or 4,822 cases / year, close to 2020 at 7.35 per 100,000 population.
This number is collected from the database.
There are many "issue death certificates" that do not specify the cause of unnatural death.
"There were latent suicides among these numbers," so the cause was not given clearly and the number of suicides was not disclosed.
As a result, the "under-real number" compared to 3 bases, namely, death certificate base, certificate Tor. 4/1, suicide surveillance form with a rate of 10.08 per 100,000 population, representing over 6,000 cases per year.
This reflects that
"Thai people commit suicide"
climbed higher since 2563, the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.
Because if compared to the previous year when the epidemic occurred, the number of Thai people who successfully committed suicide was 6-6.5 per 100,000 population per year.
My personal opinion is that "COVID-19" may not have a direct effect, but the indirect effect on the economy is a component.
Moreover, during the outbreak of the epidemic, "alcohol use" was found to be an important factor, leading to
"Thai people commit suicide with a significant high", which is a sign that the trend is not very good.
With binge drinking there is a performance impact.
and life performance leading to “sad mood” as a catalyst to be able to act easily, lack of restraint
“What do not dare to do when drinking becomes more daring?” Thus, in 2018-2019, “successful suicides” were associated with alcohol consumption of at least 30% of the total number of suicides.
About 20% were intoxicated at some point during the act. Therefore, academics need to focus on urgent matters and need to do something to get through this period.
In fact, if you sort
The “problem leading to successful suicide” has a variety of causes and can be combined into 4 important factors: the first is… “relationship problems” that may arise from a person being criticized and neglected by family relationship
or relationships with close people
Second…
“Chronic pain conditions” are classified into 2 parts, which are “chronic physical diseases” that cause severe pain to become continuous suffering, such as cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, and tuberculosis because there have been research studies.
"Pain Affects Elderly Suicide Attempts" From Long-Term Body Pain
Even if I find a doctor to treat and take medicine, it doesn't recover.
"There is no solution to suicide" as well as "chronic mental illnesses", especially schizophrenia.
and depression
It is often a factor leading to suicide as well.
Third place...
"Economic impact" As usual when there is a crisis, the suicide rate of Thai people is often apparent.
"24 months after the economic crisis" if counting COVID-19
The epidemic has been around since the beginning of 2020. Until today, it's been 2 years that may see the trend of changing the wave of suicide numbers increasing compared to the previous year.
For example, compare with
The “Tom Yam Kung Economic Crisis” in 1997 saw a rather high suicide rate that continued to rise until in 1999 there was a clear jump at 8.6 per 100,000 population.
Thus, during the coronavirus pandemic, "suicide rates are not the highest" but it has taken one to two years to climb since the first outbreak.
That means that “2022–2023 is likely to have the highest suicide record”, but with Thailand's data collection process, it cannot be done in real time, resulting in a rather delay in the perception of information.
But as far as collecting numbers from those 3 databases Found that now Thai people commit suicide at 10.08 per 100,000 population. Which the rate is quite a record high since 2021, even
after the fourth place...
“Drinking alcohol
and substance abuse”, whether the economy is good or bad.
“Drinking factors lead to suicide is high in all regions” from the state of intoxication that makes it easier to self-harm higher than usual.
However, “successful suicides” are always accompanied by more than one factor.
Second, the "highest suicide age range", this is still a group of working age 35-39, with a risk of suicidal behavior of 9 per 100,000 people of this age range.
Next is the elderly, aged 70 years and over, which is considered a highly successful suicide group.
Because they are stable, violent and resolute in their decisions to act clearly without hesitation.
Between the ages of 10 and 20, the risk of suicide is 4 per 100,000 people of this age, and between the ages of 20-34, the risk of suicide is 7 per 100,000 people of this age.
because there are many complex ideas
“But if a child is under 10 years old, the chance of success is very low.
If there is a case, children of this age must not believe it.
to investigate the real cause
In fact, each day, "Thai people" have 10-20 successful suicides/day, and news happens in the media 2-3 cases/day, representing a rate of 1 in 5 of all cases. Suicide” has always attracted special media attention.
making it look like it's being watched by society
"The suicide rate is higher" only.
This leads to "Thailand" having the 2nd highest suicide rate in ASEAN, at 8.8 per 100,000 population, 1st Singapore, 11.2 per 100,000 population.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019
The issue of “suicide prevention”, in this regard, government agencies have opened a channel to help people with mental health problems in a variety of ways.
"To reduce the loss of suicide in Thailand" Easy to think of anything. Call.
Mental health hotline 1323
or go to Facebook fan page
1323
send inbox message and inform your phone number to contact you back.
Reinforcing that "if you find someone posting strange messages that signal the risk of suicide," you can share that message to Facebook, fan page 1323, and partner agencies like
"The Crime Suppression Division
Central Investigation Headquarters" that will urgently investigate which areas at risk are at risk.
In particular, the "live suicide" signaling a kind of call for help.
by that person may speak
or not asking for help
To coordinate the police station in that area to help by contacting the people who live nearby to extend the time as long as possible.
before the officers travel to help that person
Not only that, there is also Line to go to
Line Official : Chat Khuikun
and
Sabaijai application
that has staff to evaluate and consult to the people all the time.
If there is a risk, they can also coordinate with the rescue unit.
Finally, we have to accept that "Thailand" has the possibility that it may be recorded that
"Has a higher suicide rate than death certificate numbers," keeping it ranked among the top in Asia.
Therefore, everyone should accept the truth.
"Thai people kill tall" to lead to the participation of all parties to help prevent this.
Emphasize that solving the problem of Thai people committing suicide is the best. is to improve people's quality of life. able to live happily in society happy family people have equal dignity and the inhabitants of the remote border are well cared for. This is a different solution to the problem...