One person dies every 40 seconds from suicide globally – WHO
One person around the world dies every 40 seconds from suicide, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization. The data reveals that 79 per cent of suicides occur in low and middle income nations but that high income countries have the highest rate of suicide at 11.5 suicides per 100,000 people. The […]
ESSAY: RISING SUICIDES IN MEXICO EXPOSE MENTAL HEALTH TOLL OF LIVING WITH EXTREME, CHRONIC VIOLENCE
CECILIA FARFÁN-MÉNDEZ, a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, says while violence is once again rising in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, even when it was declining, the number of suicides was on the rise…