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Sep. 9th, 2004 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgWhile men make up most suicides, more women actually attempt to take their own lives.
There are an estimated 10-to-20 million attempted suicides each year. .. The elderly are statistically the most likely to kill themselves, though men aged between 15 and 29 are doing so more and more.
The IASP says this is largely because of the availability of guns.
"Guns are the most lethal instrument of suicide. Few people survive attempts to shoot themselves," Mr Mehlum said.
The figures are no surprise to me - not that long ago, I had to refute someone on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sos_usa because she maintained that those "surrender monkeys in France" were killing themselves at a higher rate than anyone else in the world because of how much they had to pay in taxes.
Uh, no.
Wow, alcohol abuse is listed as a factor in the high rates in the Baltic states...guess capitalism isn't kind to everyone.
It makes one ponder - and I came up with something driving in this morning to work.
What happened to the old school Republican ideal of self-reliance? It's been replaced with "you're on your own! I don't have any responsibility towards you AT ALL."
We are all in service to each other - finding the balance between being self-reliant, and being part of a group, a family, a tribe, a community, a fellowship...that's key.
At any one time, we can be children, young adults and frail, sick elderly people, during our lives. Expecting to be entirely self-reliant over a whole lifetime can be very unrealistic.
I doubt the reporter wanted me to connect elderly suicides with guns. But I went there anyway.
Anyone taking antidepressants who has concerns should consult their doctor. This is also food for thought - are the rates rising because more people are taking these medications?
A popular anti-depressant has been linked with growing numbers of suicides and accidental overdoses, statistics show.
Between 1993 and 2002, 118 people in England and Wales taking venlafaxine (Efexor) died - 17.6 deaths per million prescriptions.
Although the rate is still lower than that associated with old-generation tricyclic drugs, it is rising, while the rate for tricyclics is falling.
The figures were collected by the National Audit Office.
It's an English study - but they're also able to collect statistics more reliably, in my honest opinion, due to the way they provide care. You have to report what you're treating to get paid, to the government who keeps these records.
Fewer cases on tricyclics, more on the SSRIs - so is this the balancing act?
Percentages. Bah. When it happens to you, it's 100%. That's the only percentage that really matters.
And neither family of medications touch situational depression.
Have a seat - plenty of room in this ol' living room....
There are an estimated 10-to-20 million attempted suicides each year. .. The elderly are statistically the most likely to kill themselves, though men aged between 15 and 29 are doing so more and more.
The IASP says this is largely because of the availability of guns.
"Guns are the most lethal instrument of suicide. Few people survive attempts to shoot themselves," Mr Mehlum said.
The figures are no surprise to me - not that long ago, I had to refute someone on
sos_usa because she maintained that those "surrender monkeys in France" were killing themselves at a higher rate than anyone else in the world because of how much they had to pay in taxes.Uh, no.
Wow, alcohol abuse is listed as a factor in the high rates in the Baltic states...guess capitalism isn't kind to everyone.
It makes one ponder - and I came up with something driving in this morning to work.
What happened to the old school Republican ideal of self-reliance? It's been replaced with "you're on your own! I don't have any responsibility towards you AT ALL."
We are all in service to each other - finding the balance between being self-reliant, and being part of a group, a family, a tribe, a community, a fellowship...that's key.
At any one time, we can be children, young adults and frail, sick elderly people, during our lives. Expecting to be entirely self-reliant over a whole lifetime can be very unrealistic.
I doubt the reporter wanted me to connect elderly suicides with guns. But I went there anyway.
Anyone taking antidepressants who has concerns should consult their doctor. This is also food for thought - are the rates rising because more people are taking these medications?
A popular anti-depressant has been linked with growing numbers of suicides and accidental overdoses, statistics show.
Between 1993 and 2002, 118 people in England and Wales taking venlafaxine (Efexor) died - 17.6 deaths per million prescriptions.
Although the rate is still lower than that associated with old-generation tricyclic drugs, it is rising, while the rate for tricyclics is falling.
The figures were collected by the National Audit Office.
It's an English study - but they're also able to collect statistics more reliably, in my honest opinion, due to the way they provide care. You have to report what you're treating to get paid, to the government who keeps these records.
Fewer cases on tricyclics, more on the SSRIs - so is this the balancing act?
Percentages. Bah. When it happens to you, it's 100%. That's the only percentage that really matters.
And neither family of medications touch situational depression.
Have a seat - plenty of room in this ol' living room....
