Special team set up to prevent suicides

By THE NATION

 

 

The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and Department of Mental Health (DMH) have jointly set up a special team to monitor social-media users and see if any comments indicate they have an intention to kill themselves.

 

An operational system should be ready within this year to deal with suicides, which are on the rise.

 

CSD chief Pol Maj-General Jirapob Puridet said his officers will be cooperating with DMH and media influencers round the clock. He said as soon as CSD learns about a person who has the tendency of committing suicide, it will inform local police, who will then have this person taken to the Department of Mental Health for treatment.

 

Dr Kiatiboom Vongrachit, DMH director general, said last year there were some 4,419 suicides. However, he said, in the first six months of this year – since the Covid-19 outbreak – some 2,551 people had killed themselves compared to 2,092 in the first half of 2019.

 

The top reason for suicide was relationship problems, followed by mental illness, financial problems and alcoholism.

 

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Thailand’s suicide rate surged 22% in past six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

 

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Thailand’s Department of Mental Health has adopted a pro-active approach, in coordination with the Police Crime Suppression Division and social media influencers, to help people who have may self-harm after a 22% rise in the suicide rate over the past six months.

 

Mental Health Department Director-General Dr. Kiartipoom Wongrachit said today that the rise in the country’s suicide rate is of great concern.

 

2,551 suicide cases, or 3.89 in every 100,000 of the population, were reported in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to 2,092 cases for the same period last year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailands-suicide-rate-surged-22-in-past-six-months-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/

 

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I'm surprised it's not higher, sadly will go up the next 6 months

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

special team to monitor social-media users and see if any comments indicate they have an intention to kill themselves

"Monitor" job for people! Maybe don't need monitor twitter or facebook!

 

57 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

I'm surprised it's not higher, sadly will go up the next 6 months

"I'm surprised it's not higher"

 

Depends whose numbers you believe:

 

"According to the World Health Organization's 2016 global report on mental health, with 14.4 suicides for every 100,000 people, Thailand has the highest suicide rate in Southeast Asia. (The global average is 10.6 per 100,000.)

The government disputes the WHO numbers, saying its data shows a baseline rate of 6 to 6.5 deaths by suicide per 100,000"

The Dark Side Of Thailand's Coronavirus Success - NPR

 

Increase would give over 15 in every 100,000 if working from WHO baseline.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and Department of Mental Health (DMH) have jointly set up a special team to monitor social-media users and see if any comments indicate they have an intention to kill themselves.

Or, it could be a " Big Brother " ploy

Just saying

Nothing like a bit of good old monitoring of social media, eh? 

 

Here's a hint: it's the economy, stupid.

wow!!!!!!!

SO once they know someone wants to kill themselves how do they prevent it?No use knowing if you can't prevent it!They shut down the country and destroy the economy creating an extra 500 suicides for 58 covid deaths and the best they can do is get some people to look at a screen,what a sad attempt at trying to pretend they care.

23 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

"I'm surprised it's not higher"

 

Depends whose numbers you believe:

 

"According to the World Health Organization's 2016 global report on mental health, with 14.4 suicides for every 100,000 people, Thailand has the highest suicide rate in Southeast Asia. (The global average is 10.6 per 100,000.)

The government disputes the WHO numbers, saying its data shows a baseline rate of 6 to 6.5 deaths by suicide per 100,000"

The Dark Side Of Thailand's Coronavirus Success - NPR

 

Increase would give over 15 in every 100,000 if working from WHO baseline.

 

 

 

Of course this hapless administration is going to dispute this. They are filthy, disengenuous, lying, and self preservation is their number one priority. 

 

Did anyone know there was a Mental Health Bureau here? First time I have heard of it in over a decade? Did they fabricate this Bureau out of thin air? If not, they sure have done of great job of keeping it hidden. 

 

Of course suicides will go up here. This is the first time in history nearly the entire economy was deliberately shut down. It was an exercise in insanity. What effect did they think that would have, when the administration was totally unwilling to come up any real assistance money for the masses?

 

Remember, the initial 5,000 baht plan had a rejection rate of 86%! 22 billion for completely useless vanity submarines, but no money for the Thai people. Shows exactly how insincere these toxic, incompetent and nearly useless army people are. 

Wth is the special team monitoring social media going to do...have flying teams to report to ipaddresses of people who post that they will kill themselves in 1 hour.

 

Here's an idea use the money they were going to spend on the 2 submarines and use it on stipends for people in need...or use it to fund some sort of reopening of the country.

11 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Did anyone know there was a Mental Health Bureau here? First time I have heard of it in over a decade? Did they fabricate this Bureau out of thin air? If not, they sure have done of great job of keeping it hidden. 

 

Of course suicides will go up here. This is the first time in history nearly the entire economy was deliberately shut down. It was an exercise in insanity. What effect did they think that would have, when the administration was totally unwilling to come up any real assistance money for the masses?

If you have to help deal with people with mental health issues you quickly realise Thailand has a huge mental health structure but as big as it is it is hopelessly overloaded under funded and understaffed. 

8 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

Wth is the special team monitoring social media going to do...have flying teams to report to ipaddresses of people who post that they will kill themselves in 1 hour.

 

Here's an idea use the money they were going to spend on the 2 submarines and use it on stipends for people in need...or use it to fund some sort of reopening of the country.

I was thinking the same thing  but it's still a humungous problem and the price of 2 subs would get chewed up pretty quickly.

39 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Did anyone know there was a Mental Health Bureau here? First time I have heard of it in over a decade? Did they fabricate this Bureau out of thin air? If not, they sure have done of great job of keeping it hidden. 

MoPH has more agencies and bureaus than hydra has heads. I went down that rabbithole when I was looking into COVID info. What an utter mess.

Seems to be a little bit disheartening with the first point of contacts being CDC and police rather than have groups for people to contact who have both the kindness and some level of authority to actually help people.

 

I see the financial problems elevating this risk given the current situation, the loan sharks have been well and truly circling over the last few months with many people likely to lose everything and end in forced labour to pay off debts. 

 

I had a friend contact one of the government supported debt help groups, they said they had to contact local police first, are trust levels there for people to actually seek the help they need?

 

People need actual help before the get to the suicidal stages and that help needs to be trusted and accessible with real potential to address root cause.

 

 

A Thai friend of mine chatted with me lately and she wants to commit suicide.  No job, no money, a son to support, misery.  I am in Oz and feel the same, albeit different reasons for wanting to end it all: stranded out of Thailand 6 months living in tiny spare room out of suitcase, with huge conflict, double rent, huge losses in investment due to COVID19, uncertainty when or if I can get back as a retiree.  Dying is getting to be a more attractive option for many of us.  

40 minutes ago, aussienam said:

A Thai friend of mine chatted with me lately and she wants to commit suicide.  No job, no money, a son to support, misery.  I am in Oz and feel the same, albeit different reasons for wanting to end it all: stranded out of Thailand 6 months living in tiny spare room out of suitcase, with huge conflict, double rent, huge losses in investment due to COVID19, uncertainty when or if I can get back as a retiree.  Dying is getting to be a more attractive option for many of us.  

If you are contemplating suicide, please call the Samaritans immediately. 

 

https://thesamaritans.org.au/

 

Talk to them.

2 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Or, it could be a " Big Brother " ploy

Just saying

My thoughts exactly.

1 hour ago, aussienam said:

A Thai friend of mine chatted with me lately and she wants to commit suicide.  No job, no money, a son to support, misery.  I am in Oz and feel the same, albeit different reasons for wanting to end it all: stranded out of Thailand 6 months living in tiny spare room out of suitcase, with huge conflict, double rent, huge losses in investment due to COVID19, uncertainty when or if I can get back as a retiree.  Dying is getting to be a more attractive option for many of us.  

A stressful time where the cure is proving to be worse than the disease for many and those that imposed these restriction don't seem to realise that happy people cope much better against illness.Forcing these repressive restrictions involuntarily will test the all of us I hope you can see it as a test and do your best to survive the test dig deep and use anything you can to fight your way through.My step son joined these statistics one month ago and it's not fair for those left behind.Find a reason to succeed even if it's for the benefit of others that receive the pleasure of your company.

Sheet, I'm just glad I'm in a position to ride this out. The biggest problem is there's no end in sight. I do really wonder if the cure is worse than the disease, like someone do a cost/benefit analysis on this. Maybe we should just let it rage and do its thing. Like shutting down the world economy because of some extra virulent flu virus? Really? All the reserves have been used up, what happens when something really serious comes along? Yeah, my father's 93, and I expect he could go at any moment. The real joke is that the care homes were the killing fields. He's an independent guy, happy in his garden doing his own thing. Just exactly who are we saving here? 

It is a sad and sorry situation when people need to resort to suicide when there are so many others around who are willing to help.  Surely...life is worth living.

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

nearly useless army people

This is the only part I’d dispute of your good comments  ????

Every  Thai driver  will be helped in that case!

8 minutes ago, bodga said:

Every  Thai driver  will be helped in that case!

You  think every Thai driver on the road is contemplating suicide ?

Lockdowns, face masks don’t make much difference.. look at spain even mouth mask on the beach long lockdown full with corona.. Sweden did nothing besides 1,5 meter distance.

2 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Lockdowns, face masks don’t make much difference.. look at spain even mouth mask on the beach long lockdown full with corona.. Sweden did nothing besides 1,5 meter distance.

The Swedes seem to be in a happy and healthy situation right now while the rest continue to spiral out of control down the uncertainty of a bottomless pit of despair with noway out but to admit they got it wrong and that won't happen in a pink fit. 

14 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

SO once they know someone wants to kill themselves how do they prevent it?No use knowing if you can't prevent it!They shut down the country and destroy the economy creating an extra 500 suicides for 58 covid deaths and the best they can do is get some people to look at a screen,what a sad attempt at trying to pretend they care.

What would you suggest, open the economy, open the borders, who is going to come? Covid is a

worldwide problem all countries are suffering financially. If they don't lockdown they are blamed for high numbers of deaths (See USA, India, Brazil), if they do lockdown they are blamed for a failing economy. People will rebel and flaunt government restrictions and then blame the same government when the pandemic skyrockets, they can't win, it's catch 22. 

All the worlds economies are now based on debt, when things are on the up and GDP rises every year that's no problem but when things go tits up, like now the chickens come home to roost.

Just now, soalbundy said:

What would you suggest, open the economy, open the borders, who is going to come? Covid is a

worldwide problem all countries are suffering financially. If they don't lockdown they are blamed for high numbers of deaths (See USA, India, Brazil), if they do lockdown they are blamed for a failing economy. People will rebel and flaunt government restrictions and then blame the same government when the pandemic skyrockets, they can't win, it's catch 22. 

It does make  me chuckle how most seem to think the world outside of Thailand is all peachy and Prayut is keeping the borders closed on purpose to decimate the Thailand economy.

13 hours ago, aussienam said:

A Thai friend of mine chatted with me lately and she wants to commit suicide.  No job, no money, a son to support, misery.  I am in Oz and feel the same, albeit different reasons for wanting to end it all: stranded out of Thailand 6 months living in tiny spare room out of suitcase, with huge conflict, double rent, huge losses in investment due to COVID19, uncertainty when or if I can get back as a retiree.  Dying is getting to be a more attractive option for many of us.  

Come on you soft <deleted> there is help out there, there is always someone to talk to, get out and go for a walk do some exercise join some local groups go and do your neighbours gardens 

So many small shops and businesses going bust  people losing their livelihoods is sad and not surprising