Spike on suicidal thoughts & suicides during the pandemic

 The number of suicidal thoughts increased during this pandemic due to joblessness and insecurities.

• COVID Effects on Businessmen: 

1. A businessman consumed poison, after facing loss in the catering business which he was running, canteens in 3 IT companies and faced financial loss. 
2. Another business person hanged himself because he has brought cabs on finance and he could not pay the EMI, bear the family expenses also.
3. the mobile shop owner was given a strict warning by police people for not closing shop on time, both the father and son died.

• COVID Effects on Elderly people: 

An elderly man of age 70, tried but unsuccessful attempt because he is alone here and his children are in the USA, due to a lock-down maidservant stopped coming, he felt alone.

1.  The couple who stays in Hyderabad and their children staying in Mumbai, they are anxious about their children's health and their financial insecurities.
2. An old man who was working as a security guard lost his job and became anxious about his livelihood.

• COVID Effects on Children: 

1. The children below age 8, were happy that they can stay home and play with their parents and watch cartoon networks the whole day.
2. Students of  10th & 10+2 were worried about careers later and parents are anxious about what will they do later
3. Fresh pass-out graduates do not know what to do later. 

   The above people's concerns are too many like confinement, loneliness, financial problems and stress are the factors that are driving to suicide and suicidal thoughts.

Among the total suicides, 14% were from Telanagana, As per NCRB's report. 

You can take help from the professionals and social workers and also from the National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Science(NIMHANS), Help age India, Roshini Helpline for suicide prevention.

The above are working together to prevent suicides, those who are seeking help from depression, as per a survey there was an increase in 15% of suicidal thoughts in this pandemic. only 40 % of calls were from AP & Telangana.

Among them, 20% were due to financial problems, domestic issues, unemployment, relationship problems.

financial issues were due to non-payment of EMI's, children's school fees, house rents, shop rents, and household items.  

The basic major reason is due to loneliness. To overcome it consult professionals, suicide helpline centers, yoga for a sedentary lifestyle.

video of yoga for prevention sucidal thoughts in the intial stage by sadhguru from youtube

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Exams fear PARENT & CHILDRENS

Exams induced changes in parents
1)worry among parents to see their children with higher marks than other children, the worry starts as a twitch changes to tension and its continuity becomes stress , it alters into emotional(voilent) burst.

2)As a part of the above creates a problem for him in his routine job. comes homes initiates his child for what he has thought.

3)slowly pressure which was build in the parents gets transfared to the children in the form of sending them to tutions for the subjects where he scores low.

4)As a part of the procedure the father initialy wakes up and takes his child to the tutions.

5) As the time goes on it becomes difficult for him because he has to look after his job also simultaneously and has to handle the stress of his job also.

6) Due to the above entire process series of changes occur forgetting,worry,tension,anxiety, stress, skipping meals,sleep disorders, ill health.

Exams induced changes in Children

1)The childrens worry begins when their starts comparing, with out praising them for getting good result.Due to it child starts thinking than reading and gets tensed that instead of praising him for marks.

2)As a part of it, his concentration decreases, thinking starts about what if i get less marks, due to this thoughts a slight changes occur in his time table.

3)with this thoughts peeping while his studies pressure builds in him that he is wasting his time.slowly anxiety builds up as his thinking increases.

4)As his time is wasted in thinking he increases his time of reading by lowering time for his relaxing that is watching/listening or eating/sleeping time will be reduced.

5)As the time passes examination day approaches complications starts by headache and then change in his apetite & sleep.

6)Due to the above process i.e., severe headache,fever,stomach pain brings down study timing and in turn leads to low results.

After seeing the results parents gets frustrated and starts letting it out in different ways and some of the children may run off from home/suicide may occur.

Pressure should be given to children regarding studies but in low doses that child can handle it by which it will be helpful to both parents and children.

Exams are a part of life which teaches us to how to handle the difficult situation in life here we have supplementary but in life race we have no second chance

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