Most young suicide victims are mentally ill but not getting the help they desperately need,

Most young suicide victims are mentally ill, but not getting the help they desperately need


Despite significant investment in prevention, the number of youth suicides has not substantially decreased. Photo: Getty

Coronial records have found that most young Australians aged 10 to 24 who die by suicide are either diagnosed with or suffer a likely mental health disorder – but more than two-thirds are not in contact with mental health services at the time of their deaths.

This is the picture drawn from an analysis of national coronial records by research and advocacy group Orygen.

The analysis reveals a disturbing trend from the years 2006 to 2015 that is likely to have since been exacerbated by COVID-19 social control measures.
Concerns that a recession will make matters worse

Despite significant investment in prevention, “the number of youth suicides had not substantially decreased and there were fears rates would increase as Australia heads into recession,” said Associate Professor Jo Robinson, from the Centre For Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and leader of Orygen’s suicide prevention research.

In a prepared statement Professor Robinson said: “We clearly need to address the role of mental illness in youth suicides in this country. The fact that so many of the young people who have died by suicide had a diagnosed, or probable, mental health problem, and many had sought help for their mental health yet were not in contact with services at the time of their death, is extremely concerning.

“There are tragic consequences for missing obvious opportunities to intervene early to support and treat young people with mental health challenges.”

What the research found

Orygen researchers examined the demographic, social and clinical characteristics of young Australians aged 10 to 24 years who died by suicide between 2006 and 2015, by reviewing data stored in the
National Coronial Information System.

Their analysis was published on Monday in the Medical Journal of
Australia and revealed:

73 per cent of these lost young people experienced mental health difficulties, prior self-harm or substance misuse at the time of their deaths

73.5 per cent of the 3365 young Australians who died by suicide were male. Other research has found that this figures holds true overall for men of all ages

Almost 40 per cent of the young people who died were not engaged in study or work

40 per cent lived in the bottom-most socio-economic disadvantaged areas of Australia.

What’s the solution here?

Lead author of the study, Nicole Hill, said young people who die by suicide “experience multiple demographic, clinical and social risk factors such as a history of mental ill health, past suicidal behaviour, economic disadvantage and a history of adversity”.

Ms Hill said that to date, the key drivers of youth suicide have not been investigated on a nationwide scale.

“This analysis puts mental ill health in the spotlight as a significant target for service reform in youth suicide prevention,” she said,

Ms Hill said suicide was complex and access to services was only part of the solution.

“We also need to be thinking about other ways we can support young people and ways in which they can support themselves and each other,” she said.

This included reaching out to young people in school settings, and identifying “other settings – such as tertiary education, workplaces and online – that would be suitable for suicide prevention activities”.

Even so, it appears suicide prevention researchers are struggling to hit the mark as to where to put their attention.

In January, Professor Jo Robinson co-authored a paper that found: “Despite continuous research over the past 20 years in Australia there is still limited understanding of what works and what does not work in suicide prevention and where to invest research efforts that will help to expand this knowledge base.”

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IIT Roorkee Professor Calls Student 'Soft' For Not Attending Class Due To Father's Demise, Draws Social Media Wrath https://thelogicalindian.com/trending/iit-roorkee-professor-calls-student-mentally-weak-for-not-attending-class-due-to-fathers-demise-draws-social-media-wrath-25083

IIT Roorkee Professor Calls Student 'Soft' For Not Attending Class Due To Father's Demise, Draws Social Media Wrath 

The video surfaced on social media platforms received massive outrage from netizens, many of them saying that such incidents were responsible for cases of mental illness, suicide among students. 

The Logical Indian Crew Uttarakhand |

 27 Nov 2020 

 Writer : Devyani Madaik | 

Editor : Shubhendu Deshmukh 

| Creatives : Rajath Credits: Twitter, 

The New Indian Express 

Students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee decried a professor's deep-seated apathy towards a student, who was unable to attend classes due to his father's demise. During the video/audio call with his students, Professor Patit Paban Kundu from the department of Chemical Engineering referred to the student as 'soft' and 'not at that mental level' after he was not able to attend classes. Stating that the student, Vedant Singh already had less than 50 per cent attendance, Kundu said that he would not excuse the student anymore. Kundu said that he would not provide marks to students with below 75 per cent attendance, as per the rules. 

When the students tried to rationalise Vedant's family problem, along with the dawdling internet connection he had been dealing ever since the online classes have started, Kundu quoted the example of Indian cricketer Mohammed Siraj, who stayed back in Australia and continued the tour with the Indian Cricket Team despite father's demise in India. The cricketer's father passed away on November 20. 

Kundu said that the student did not inform about his father's demise, to which, one of the students said that they were informed by his friend. 

The professor, in an apathetic sound, said that he had no reason to miss the class, given that everyone is studying from home. 

"Death ho gaya hai toh kya, ghar mein hai toh class ni attend karna hai?" Kundu can be heard saying.  

Students time and again reiterated Vedant's situation and said that he might take time to recover from the loss he has incurred. Kundu said the student was taking his class for granted, and he will not provide him with marks. The professor, when informed by the students that the Institute Academic Programme Committee (IAPC) of the institution has decided that marks for the attendance will not be counted for the ongoing session in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kundu said that the IAPC could not 'dictate' him to teach. 

The video/audio recording surfaced on social media platforms received massive outrage from netizens, many of them saying that such incidents were responsible for cases of mental illness, suicide among students. 

One of the former students said such kind of problem existed with many more professors of the institution. Kundu later wrote a mail saying he never intended any wrong. 

"On my personal account, I can tell that after the expiry of my father I had to go to South Korea and I had gone there. Maybe you are still not at that mental level, and you are soft. That's the reason you have done all these wrong things which are creating a bad name for our institute." 

He said the students could have approached him in person or mailed him about the same, rather than posting the video on social media. 

"Instead of doing all these, you could have simply mailed me after the class to apologize to Vedanta for not showing apathy (I have shown it; that is even evident when I told all students will be allowed to sit for the exam; the additional comment was that he has to pass the exam)." 

He further stated that in his 24 years of a teaching career, he had worked hard on helping students from failing, and this was one of the attempts. 

"It seems that all of you misjudged me (consult your senior again to judge me). I believe in duty, whatever the consequences are. That's why I was taking the example of Siraj (the cricketer)," his mail read. 

Kundu 'requested' the students to upload another video starting that he has tendered an 'Unconditional Apology' to all the students, also stating that they had misjudged him. 

Highlighting the sentence, he instructed the students that they must mention that they have no issue with the professor. His resume on the official website of the institution describes his illustrious career. He has worked in various institutions including the University of Calcutta, filed 148 research papers, handled essential projects of central government along with many others. 

Responding to the queries related to the matter, the institute told The Logical Indian that the Students' representative had been asked to submit a report on the incident and assured of looking into the incident. The media tried to reach out to Prof Kundu for his say on the matter but received no response.

https://thelogicalindian.com/trending/iit-roorkee-professor-calls-student-mentally-weak-for-not-attending-class-due-to-fathers-demise-draws-social-media-wrath-25083

PS: The Registrar of IIT Madras a Mr Sethuraman, did the same thing to me in July 1966 when I lost my father. The family had lost its bread winner and my mother wanted me to quit IIT and find a job. I did not attend Lectures for two full months and had missed one set of surprise periodicals or Tests in every subject. Then I received this Callous Phone Call from the registrar. we did not have a phone as we were too poor and the call came to my neighbours house. There was this Callous Voice of the Registrar that told me, Everyone's father has to die sometime. If you do not attend classes from Monday I am afraid you will not have the 70% attendance that is mandatory to sit for the final exam and I will not allow you to sit for the final exam. Obviously some of these men never bonded with their fathers to appreciate how devastating it can be to lose a parent. Not all men with PHDs are good teachers or Good men. 

PhDs who become Faculty need to be trained to become Professional Teachers with empathy and better understanding of students needs and situations and this will reduce the number of suicides in IIT's

Ram 

PS:" This is my personal Opinion

 

MBBS beyond reach of meritorious poor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

By PUBLIC On Nov 17, 2020

Editor,

Amidst huge protests with meaningful suggestions by our students who aspire to become doctors, to postpone the NEET until COVID-19 subsides, the authorities backed by the Supreme Court paid a deaf ear to those pleas. One month of TV discussion taught me one doctrine. I now know why our students are in a state of utter desperation and helplessness. When three girls from Tamil Nadu took the extreme step to die of suicide then the picture became clearer. All three who died of suicide were the one or two failures, some even managed to be wait-listed. The story of a boy who also took his own life was more pathetic. Last year he could manage to clear entrance and was invited to one college. But the fees charged were too much for the father who is just a poor farmer. Scrutinising the case further all students all over India who excelled in their studies in NCERT schools be it CBSE or ICSE or State Boards had to study voluminous bazaar notes and the majority of these poor meritorious students concentrated 60% in Biology, 25% in Chemistry and only 15% in Physics. Worst these bazaar notes are very expensive very heavy in weight. So all those valuable years of studying beautifully compiled textbooks by 16 renowned professors of JNU, IIT’S and PGT’S proved to be in vain as no questions were ever set from those books.

What prompted the then government of 2012, the UPA to do away with the good practice of our states taking the help of their State Directorates of Health Service to select the best in Physics, Chemistry and Biology from ICSE and CBSE Boards and send them to the medical colleges in order of merit is not known. What we know is the NEET coaching centres are flourishing like mushrooms and till date the NEET coaching centres have become the most flourishing industry in the country. After Class X Science results, the best rich students would be pulled in and two years of heavy coaching to attack weird problems never found in any NCERT textbooks. This would produce results which­­ then advertise the coaching centres fighting for supremacy.

It appears that the paper setters, moderators evaluators are from these centres. Why I say this is because in the last 2020 NEET paper in Physics, there were five very wrong questions and surprisingly one boy scored 100% in P.C.B. Two wrongs cannot make a right. Objective questions very hidden in nature with silly choice of (1), (2), (3), (4) predominate. Except two questions on the Guitar and Photo- electricity which deserve praise as being conceptual, the rest are simply memorisation of formulae, hundreds of them followed by lengthy arithmetic of Class VII standard of division and multiplication. These take the students to more than ninety seconds, 30 seconds more than time allotted. Worst is that it appears that the paper setter does not follow the 2019 – 2020 NCERT curriculum which had undergone some change. Transistor and Logic Gates were omitted as per order. But these topics were set. So for our poor who have no money to be attend coaching classes, is this a fair deal? Is there any justice in it?

Tamil Nadu which had since 2012 opposed NEET is now repentant following the 3 suicides before examination, to resort to the old method of selection. I do pray our Education Department emulates the state of Tamil Nadu. The present 2020 NEET qualifier assisted by SC concessions are two or three time repeaters. So unless we act, NEET is going to be the National Elimination Test of the “meritorious poor” who cannot afford to be extra heavily coached as the rich do with NEET coaching. Hence the meritorious poor will no longer become doctors. Isn’t this nepotism of the highest order?

Yours etc.,

Manbha Diengdoh,

Via email

Fathima Latheef: Public memory versus memory of the margin

Fathima Latheef: Public memory versus memory of the margin
November 10, 2020

By Raniya Zulaikha, TwoCircles.net

Memory is often a construct. There are many factors influencing the popular memory such as movies, newspapers, books and so on. One best example of such a construct is around the imageries of B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi. 

Gandhian stories, his contribution to independence struggle as well as his death remain part of legendary history. While Ambedkar is mostly celebrated as a mere constitutionalist, but Ambedkar as an intellectual, wonderful mind and the one who questioned caste from the very foundations is never known, celebrated or is under a veil. 

Power structures, more precisely Brahmanical forces try hard to obscure the visibility of Ambedkar in order to prevent the so-called turbulence in the public sphere.

Fathima Latheef, a student of IIT Madras, from the very moment of her martyrdom has been veiled or her visibility being denied. An institutional killing has been merely narrowed down to a case of suicide due to academic pressure. Fathima with her brilliant academic records had questioned the same simple narratives. Why is the cause of death obscured? Why couldn’t a country erupt to a massive protest? If it is not Islamophobia, then what is it?

This question strangles my mind as a student for the past one year. Fathima is still out of popular memory after a few moments of death. In other words, she is somewhere in the Brahmanical archives of killings of Muslim bodies. Being in a predominantly Brahmanical academic space with the brilliance was the first mistake every Muslim like Fathima could commit and Brahmanism will take away your life and erase you out of the memory. This act of omission limits our deaths into the realm of sacredness.

Fathima left a note to this world, where she clearly mentions the name of a professor and the problems of her existence being a Muslim girl and discrimination against her Muslim body. Her note could not find a value beyond the procedurals of a suicide note. The potential questions raised throughout her living experiences were erased in the very first moment. Many define it as her academic inability to withstand the pressure. It was by any means the second brutal killing in the public sphere after Rohith Vemula in the recent past. Oh! What else could you expect from Brahmanical state or nation?

Fathima’s death raises the question of justice. How minorities in the country are being treated in higher institutions. Therefore, the fight for Fathima and Rohith and many to count, who are no longer here, are a struggle for all of us. While the authorities are trying hard to erase these Bahujan lives from the memories, they are unable to do so because of the suicide notes left by them. It is a delusion that the subject can be reduced to arguments that suicide is caused by stress and a lack of social interaction.

There were even those who fabricated stories around the date of “November 8th” chosen to commit suicide. The underlying strategy was to portray suicides as a phenomenon created by a virtual conflict and bring the burden of death to themselves. But their suicide notes are able to compose something stronger than such narratives. Thousands of people vow to become another Fathima and Rohith every time they return to their last words.

Whatever the mainstream narrative, there shall be a day when Fathima will erupt as a thunderstorm on the Brahminic public sphere. Her note shall be raised as the foundation to jeopardize many similar narratives. A memory of margin deeply rooted with injustice against the discriminated minority of the nation before and after the death. The memory gives plenty of potential threat to the very foundations of Brahmanical public sphere. The memory shall erupt as rupture.

Fathima, our sincere prayers are for you, that you lived in the margins as a hero. You are one of the few who lives among us through death.

Raniya Zulaikha is a student of Political Science at Ramjas College, DU

Recent Suicide By LSR Student Opens The Conversation On Student Distress All Across The Nation,

Recent Suicide By LSR Student Opens The Conversation On Student Distress All Across The Nation

FEATUREDINDIA
By Pallavi Kapoor 

On Nov 10, 2020 

India, a nation that sought to be a ‘superpower’ by the year 2020, has failed yet another section of its population. Students, Researchers, and Scholars across the nation are struggling at the hands of a widening digital divide, an economic crisis, and to top it all, they are being denied their fellowships for months on end. Recently, a Telangana based college student from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, was forced to take her life after being denied her scholarship funds for over a year.

Source – The Indian Express

The Department of Science and Technology awarded her the ‘INSPIRE’ scholarship after topping at her school. However, due to a crippling digital divide and the mounting financial inadequacies amidst the pandemic, she was rendered hopeless.

Source – The week

“The students’ union had surveyed the students to understand the impact of the digital divide. We found that she had no laptop, and it was difficult for her to attend the classes. The online classes cost her dearly for getting the data packs,” Unnimaya, General Secretary of Lady Shriram Ram College Students’ Union, and her friend had said in a statement.

It was later discovered that she was paying over 1 lakh rupees on her education. To add to her problems, she was asked to vacate her hostel due to the coronavirus pandemic, while transferring was not affordable.

UGC- JRF release and the untold stories

The suicide of the student has since triggered much controversy while throwing light on the crippling condition of quality education in India. Another campaign that has failed to make headlines but is equally significant is the #ReleaseUGCJRF campaign. Researchers entitled to their UGC JRF release have been denied their funds for several months now.

While UGC, the body responsible for the stipend’s discourse, has allegedly always been irregular, the situation worsened since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. Junior Research Fellows have actively been writing letters and emails to get in touch with the concerned authorities but to no effect.

“UGC is the funding body for PUR monthly stipend. UGC has always been irregular in the disbursement of fellowship amount, but now the issue has touched another level altogether. They have not released PUR stipends since July 2020. Scholars from across the country have tried to reach UGC officials and various ministries associated with it via emails and phone calls, and we have not received any concrete responses yet,” A Ph.D. student from IIT Delhi who has not received her stipend since July said in a statement.

This is the case with several other fellows who are now struggling to make ends meet due to the pandemic. As a result, their reliance on their family members is spiraling.

“Since this pandemic started, they haven’t got any fellowships from any agents like UGC and CSIR. Students are asking their family members for money to pay for hostel mess fees, institution course fees, etc.,” a Ph.D. scholar from IIT Bhubaneswar cited.

“Due to this, at such ages as 24-25 years old, Ph.D. scholars are financially dependent upon families. This tends to depression, which leads to suicide,” he added.

These students have come forward with everything in their power to get access to something they are entitled to have. From signing petitions to mailing in groups to digital protests, but their voices have gone unheard.

Delays and Demands

The delay in the release has also disrupted the research work of such scholars.

“This delay in releasing the fellowship amount is causing financial distress among us, and our research is suffering. I mean, who can think of research when they don’t have money to survive, especially during this difficult pandemic situation,” the researcher from IIT Delhi had said in a statement. On being asked about her demands, she emphasized the uncompromising need to release the JRF stipend with immediate effect.

“Placing a proper mechanism for timely disbursement of the fellowship and total transparency of the procedure” were among her other demands.

Another scholar pursuing his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi was greatly “disappointed” by the magnitude of problems he has been introduced to after having strived enough to get into eminent institutions such as the IIT Delhi. Due to the ongoing challenges, he informed Sambad that he has decided to resign from his current program to continue his research in the states hoping that it will be just.

A Ray of Hope

Without surprise, the UGC has been slapped awake by the LSR student suicide case. According to the latest updates, the University grants commission (UGC) on Monday declared that the pending fellowships for Junior Research Fellows (JRF) and Senior Research Fellows (SRF) would be released within a week.

In-charge of the INSPIRE Programme, Dr. Sanjay Mishra blamed the delay on “financial and technical” constraints during the pandemic.

Whether or not every student gets what they deserve, stories such as these make us question the legitimacy of our “developing” nation.

Neither is suicide a crime, nor can one be driven to it

Neither is suicide a crime, nor can one be driven to it

November 8, 2020, 6:35 AM IST 

SA Aiyar in Swaminomics | India, politics | TOI

Shashi Tharoor, Rhea Chakraborty and now Arnab Goswami. The social and electronic media are baying for their blood, accusing them of driving somebody — wife, lover, and creditor respectively — to suicide. As argued in earlier columns, this is moral and logical nonsense.

Historically, suicide has been a crime in almost all countries. Wikipedia lists hundreds of famous persons globally who died of suicide in the 21st century. Recent examples include actor Robin Williams, financier Jeff Epstein and chef Anthony Bourdain. The reason is almost always mental stress for some reason.

Since suicide is a crime, so is abetment to suicide. The word “abet” means “assist.” If a doctor assists a patient’s suicide, that is abetment. But in India hardly anybody is arrested for that. Rather, the police and courts interpret “abetment to suicide” to mean “driving to suicide”. I know of no other country where this happens. In none of the famous suicides globally have lovers or creditors been accused of abetting suicide.

I personally know many people — including my younger brother Mukundan and others in school and college — who died of suicide. They were tormented by life’s challenges and unfairness, fought with inner demons, and succumbed to stress that others could cope with. They were victims, not criminals. Many state governments give compensation to the families of farmers who commit suicide (as highlighted in the film Peepli Live). So, why don’t they decriminalise suicide?

“Driving to suicide” is a commonplace phrase but lacking in medical rigour or legal soundness. Thousands of students die of suicide every year after bad exam results. Should parents (who put pressure on their children) and teachers (who set exam papers) be accused of driving the students to suicide?

Many debtors who cannot repay bank loans kill themselves. Should all bankers who lent them money be jailed for driving them to suicide? If so, why should bankers risk lending money at all?

Every year, court judgments inflict terrible blows on those who lose, and some resort to suicide. A prominent recent example was Kalikho Phul, former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He was ousted by the Supreme Court for coming to power through illegal political manipulation. Deeply humiliated, he resorted to suicide. Should the Supreme Court be prosecuted for driving him to suicide? No, that would be nonsense in all the examples discussed above.

My earlier columns have repeatedly pointed out that the suicide rate in India, and indeed globally, is around 11 per lakh people, or 0.01%. This can rise tenfold to 0.1% in great stress-causing disasters, but even so 99.9% of people remain suicide-proof. The rate is the same in rich USA and poor India. India’s suicide rate in highest in Puducherry and Kerala, but low in Bihar and UP, not because harassment and deprivation are greater in the south, but because cultural attitudes to suicide and mental stress are different. A study by Anuradha Bose in The Lancet found that the suicide rate among Tamil girls aged 15-19 years was 146/lakh — ten times the global average.

Through history, millions died in droughts and epidemics. Even so 99.9% did not commit suicide, since the desire to live overwhelmed the worst deprivations for all but a tiny suicide-prone minority. Millions preferred to die horribly rather than kill themselves in the Bengal famine or genocides of Hitler and Stalin. They had far more cause to resort to suicide than Sushant Singh Rajput or the creditors of Arnab Goswami but did not.

Overwhelmingly, unfortunates kill themselves because they belong to the 0.01% that are suicide prone. They cannot stand the stress of quarrels with spouses and relatives, unfair treatment, or failures in love, business, and exams. They are victims of mental ill-health. India’s recent Mental Health Care Act does not formally decriminalise suicide. But it says those attempting suicide will be presumed to be victims of mental ill-health, and hence protected from criminal prosecution. That is a welcome step. However, if suicide is in effect presumed to be legal, how can abetment to such a legal act be prosecuted as illegal, as the police are doing in the cases of Tharoor and Goswami? In both cases, the main reason for prosecution appears to be political vendetta. My liberal friends say Goswami constantly incites communal hate in his TV show, and was relentless in his campaigns against Tharoor and Chakraborty. If so, let him be prosecuted for inciting hate, not the trumped-up charge of abetting suicide.

In sum, suicide is not a crime, and you cannot be driven to it. The Supreme Court needs to proclaim that the notion of driving people to suicide is medically and logically ill-founded, and anyway must not be confused with abetment.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

No progress in CBI probe into Fathima’s death, say parents - The Hindu

KERALA

No progress in CBI probe into Fathima’s death, say parents

STAFF REPORTER
KOLLAM, NOVEMBER 08, 2020 19:22 IST

Say CBI officials had called them a couple of times, but yet to take statement

Despite the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) taking over the probe, there has been no progress in the case related to the death of Fathima Latheef, a 19-year-old student who was found dead in her hostel room at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, her parents have alleged.

The Klappana resident, a very bright student and a rank-holder, was a first-year student of Humanities when she reportedly ended her life on November 9, 2019. Her family had filed a complaint after retrieving a note from her phone, according to which she was facing harassment from some faculty members, forcing her to take the extreme step. She had joined IIT in July 2019 and was the class topper when she died. “CBI officials had called us a couple of times during the last months, but they are yet to take our statement. I have sent a mail to the CBI director sharing our grievances and I want to believe that my daughter will get justice,” said Latheef, Fathima’s father.

The case was transferred to the CBI when her family and a delegation of MPs visited Union Home Minister Amit Shah and handed over a memorandum signed by 41 MPs seeking a fair probe.

Her family had raised several allegations after the death as the screensaver of her phone and notes saved in it had named the persons responsible for her death. But with the Kotturpuram police insisting that they could not find any suicide note, her father had alleged that Tamil Nadu police was trying to botch up the investigation.

Initial assumption

The initial assumption of the police was that Fathima committed suicide since she could not score good marks in the first semester examination. But according to her family, she had scored the highest marks in her class even in her last examination. They had also alleged that IIT authorities had prevented other students from talking to Fathima’s family and suspended the classes of her batch immediately after the incident.

Meanwhile, Kollam MP N.K. Premachandran has written to the Union Home Minister demanding a time-bound investigation. “The probe should be expedited as there is no breakthrough even one year after Fathima’s death. The CBI authorities also failed to respond to her father’s appeals and immediate steps should be taken to complete the probe,” he said.

Mr. Premachandran also observed that the mysterious deaths of students at IITs were a matter of major concern. “The reason for the increasing number of such incidents is the failure in finding and punishing the culprits,” he said.