World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10) organizers have urged the global community to encourage people engage with each other and to join together to spread awareness of suicide prevention which is on the rise.
A website has been created by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) to provide to visit and avail opportunity for people, across the globe, to raise awareness of suicide and suicide prevention measures.
The website (https://www.iasp.info/wspd2020/) has urged the bloggers and writers can help increase suicide prevention awareness locally and worldwide by writing about suicide and suicide prevention in their native languages. The banner for most national language have been put up on their site including one in Hindi (see inset picture).
WHO has been co-sponsor of the day to raise awareness around the globe that suicide can be prevented through educational activities, commemorative events, press briefings and conferences, as well as Facebook and Twitter coverage.
WHO informs, "Close to 800 000 people die by suicide every year. Furthermore, for each suicide, there are more than 20 suicide attempts. Suicides and suicide attempts have a ripple effect that impacts on families, friends, colleagues, communities and societies. Suicides are preventable. Much can be done to prevent suicide at individual, community and national levels."
According to WHO, mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies and during the times of crisis are necessary for the people exposed to extreme stressors which is risk factor for mental health and social problems like suicides.
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