Tokyo: Many more Japanese people die from suicide, probably exacerbated by the economic and social effect of the pandemic than by COVID-19 disease itself. While Japan has treated its coronavirus outbreak much more than many countries, keeping deaths below 2,000 across the country, provisional statistics from the National Police Agency show that suicides were 2,153 in October alone. Fix marking the fourth consecutive month of increase.
To date, more than 17,000 others have committed suicide in Japan this year. Self-inflicted deaths in October were higher to 600 consistent with the year, with female suicides about one-third of the total exceeding 80%.
Women, who have a number one duty in childcare, have suffered the brutality of maximum task losses and a lack of confidence caused by the pandemic, and are also at greater threat of domestic violence, which attendance centres say has worsened here this year. as it does all over the world.
Suicides of children, a much lower percentage of the total, are also higher.
“We will have to deal with the truth seriously,” government spokesman Katsunobu Kato said this week, making greater efforts to advise potential patients through suicide hotlines and social media.
Yokohama psychiatrist Chiyoko Ueda, in an interview published this week on a local news site, said the misery of intellectual fitness caused by COVID in her clinic. Among the things he said to him, patients told him, “My self-esteem is low because I’m worried about money. The stage at home has upset my life; my children and I don’t get along.
Japan has been dealing with the highest suicide rates for a long time and for complex reasons, however, overall figures had continued a downward trend this year, until they were reversed in July, as an initial pandemic of “we are all together,” positivity decreased and the buffering effect of public subsidies disappeared.
That month, Japan added another $10 million for suicide prevention, after $24 million budgeted last spring.
Until this year, Japan had made steady progress in reducing suicides, which exceeded 34,000 in 2003. Improved recommendations and efforts to fight karoshi, or paintings to death, helped reduce suicides to about 20,000 last year, the lowest number since the record. began in 1978.
While Japan still has the highest suicide rate among G-7 countries, at 16% per 100,000, it hoped to continue to make progress, with the aim of reducing it to thirteen% until 200,000 by 2026, a point comparable to other evolved countries.
Meanwhile, suicide in the United States has increased from 14 to 100,000 in 2018.
The deterioration of intellectual capacity in Japan, which reports knowledge of suicide much faster than most countries, can become a harbinger of concern that the insidious effects of the pandemic elsewhere.
Earlier this year, U. S. researchers warned that the pandemic could cause 75,000 “deaths out of desperation” due to unemployment, lack of social contact, and other stressors of intellectual fitness.
“We’re in the middle of an intellectual fitness epidemic right now, and I think it’s just getting worse,” dr. Vivian Pender, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, to CBS “Sunday Morning. “
“Don’t you think the worst is over?” correspondent Susan Spencer asked.
“No, not at all. No, I think somehow, the worst is yet to come, in terms of intellectual health. There will be immense pain and mourning for all other lost people, and missed opportunities, dreams and lost dreams. hopes that other people had. “
More than one part (53%) American adults said in a recent survey that their intellectual aptitude had suffered due to the pandemic. Antidepressant prescriptions greater than 14% after the initial outbreak.