Drug Addiction and Suicide on the Rise in Mexico Angeles Cruz Martinez - La Jornada
go to original June 12, 2013

Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou, JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding suicide and suicide attempts, and to create much-needed resources to help people who reclaim their life after escaping death. Resources (Ted TALKS)

Violence, kidnappings and witnessing aggression and deaths, along with illegal drug use, has caused a 30 percent rise in the prevalence of mental illness, stated Maria Elena Medina Mora, director of the Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz National Psychiatry Institute.

This expert asserts that although there is no statistical evidence to corroborate, it is evident that the life experiences between the different age groups have notably changed in the past 30 years.

This has, without a doubt, influenced the population’s mental health. One concrete phenomenon, associated with a greater presence of central nervous system disorders, is suicide, the frequency of which has doubled between 1990 and 2011. Among youth ages 15 to 19, the rate almost tripled, going from 4.9 to 13.6% [of deaths].

Medina Mora emphasizes that 70% of people who take their own lives suffer from depression.

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Translated by Tammy Nolan

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