KATHMANDU, Sep 10: Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have stressed the roles of each sector to prevent suicide and the community should be first made aware to discourage the suicide tendency.
When World Suicide Prevention Day is being organised today including in Nepal, peo
This year, on Friday, World Suicide Prevention Day was observed throughout the world with a theme ‘creating hope through action’ to raise awareness about the prevention of suicide.
Suicide is the proxy of poor mental health, and it remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the 2019 National Mental Health Survey in Nepal, 6.5 per cent of the adult population was experiencing suicidal thoughts at the time.