snoop1130 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 The average statistics of suicides among Thai people have increased by 500 to 1,000 people per year in the past five years, the Department of Mental Health revealed on Thursday, September 8th. Spokesperson Dr. Warot Chotipittayasunon stated during a mental health online panel discussion that the number of people committing suicide had increased by as high as 1,000 people per year in the past five to 10 years. About 5,000 people committed suicide in 2021 alone. TPN notes that 2021 saw an average of eight months of extended Covid19 restrictions, quasi-lockdowns, forced business closures, mandates, and other measures that decimated many sectors of the Thai economy such as tourism, hospitality, construction, events, MICE, culture, sports, entertainment, retail, and more. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/09/09/number-of-thai-people-committing-suicide-increased-by-1000-people-per-year-in-the-past-five-years-mental-health-department-reveals/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-09-09 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Samedi Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Pretty low suicide rate in this country (even though it's on the rise) ???? In Europe, France has a population roughly the size of that of Thailand and has 9000 suicides a year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted September 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2022 Not surprising really when the government destroyed your economy, your job, your income, your lifestyle and probably your marriage and family too. I expect more suicides during stupid lock downs and post pandemic 16 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikebell Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 Is this Prayuth's idea of 'Happiness to the people'? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jaywalker Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 Welll. they attempt it everyday with the safety standards, low balconies, open elevator shafts, wearing flip-flops on wet roof(v)es, texting on motorbikes, racing, 4 people on a moto, worthles electrical wiring etc. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Foghorn Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 I bet that the people in power who put the stupid lockdowns in place were hoping for higher numbers , like the rest of the governments brought by the WEF 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 This is largely due to the "Prayuth Decimation". Not exactly bringing happiness to the people. The highly selective economic shutdowns crushed countless families. It falls entirely upon the shoulders of the current leadership. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 15 hours ago, snoop1130 said: The average statistics of suicides among Thai people have increased by 500 to 1,000 people per year in the past five years, the Department of Mental Health revealed on Thursday, September 8th. If Prayut & Co stay in power I can envisage that increasing more. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 57 minutes ago, mikebell said: Is this Prayuth's idea of 'Happiness to the people'? Verison 4.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thomas KH Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 So sad. Reading this makes me depressed. Brings back sad memories of a friend of mine in Germany. Was always happy, exuded an infectious and enviable self-confidence and was a joy to be and have around. Then one day it was all over. I read his obituary and found out later that he was rejected by all the medical schools he applied to. 15 hours ago, Baron Samedi said: In Europe, France has a population roughly the size of that of Thailand and has 9000 suicides a year. Yes, Germany too. Frightening numbers. An average of 1 every hour. https://www.abendblatt.de/nachrichten/article211843431/Alle-53-Minuten-ein-Suizid.html 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mr Meeseeks Posted September 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2022 1 hour ago, mikebell said: Is this Prayuth's idea of 'Happiness to the people'? A few farmers topped themselves over the rice pledging scheme and Yingluck was pilloried and vilified constantly on here. This government presides over an increase in suicides of 1,000 persons and nary a peep from the closet fascists on here. Strange. ???? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommysboy Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 The Government did little to help its people imo. The global economic outlook is utterly dismal for many years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 On 9/10/2022 at 5:49 AM, RichardColeman said: Not surprising really when the government destroyed your economy, your job, your income, your lifestyle and probably your marriage and family too. I expect more suicides during stupid lock downs and post pandemic Where have the sad/confused smiley things gone? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arithai12 Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 6 hours ago, Neeranam said: Where have the sad/confused smiley things gone? You too... good. I thought I was the only one. I mean, bad. Basically, we are obliged to like? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Mickmanus Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 On 9/10/2022 at 3:16 AM, Mr Meeseeks said: A few farmers topped themselves over the rice pledging scheme and Yingluck was pilloried and vilified constantly on here. This government presides over an increase in suicides of 1,000 persons and nary a peep from the closet fascists on here. Strange. ???? Who are you saying are the "closet fascists" on here ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiamAndy Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Please bring back the confused /sad faced reactions 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricTh Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 On 9/10/2022 at 5:49 AM, RichardColeman said: Not surprising really when the government destroyed your economy, your job, your income, your lifestyle and probably your marriage and family too. I expect more suicides during stupid lock downs and post pandemic All these silly border closure by the government after most of the populations have got the vaccines is unnecessary. It's just paranoia, getting Covid is not a death sentence , it becomes just a flu after getting vaccinated. Starving for long time feels more like a death sentence than a few days of flu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Meeseeks Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 13 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said: Who are you saying are the "closet fascists" on here ? Those who support military coups, juntas and dictatorships of course, silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricTh Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 19 hours ago, Neeranam said: Where have the sad/confused smiley things gone? People are expected to give positive likes and dislikes are disabled. lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fredwiggy Posted September 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2022 Suicides are by people who have depression. A disease which is prevalent in every country. Some things lead people to take their lives. Poverty, bad leadership, seeing family members dying daily on the roads, a boring lifestyle (especially in the country here), lack of good therapists, most people living for themselves backstabbing their "friends" (the best of friends talk about each other behind their backs), inability to complain without consequences about leaders, that boring lifestyle leading many to use drugs, or mostly, cheap booze, which leads to more depression. All of these and more exacerbate the depression many have. Medicine is available, but many won't go the extra yard to make sure they are getting the right medicine (the therapists job is to evaluate regularly, and make changes if needed). I read somewhere where a survey was made, telling that there are millions of teenagers here with depression. How many are being evaluated, and helped with this? Depression is genetic, and I've seen, in personal experience, an ex wife and girlfriend who have clinical depression. The former did nothing, and that lead to our divorce,along with her being a narcissist (most come from neglect, or spoiling, in their formative years, by parents). The latter is on meds, and is doing better, although has an environment which is depressing in itself. Medicines can, and will help, if they're the right ones, but the best defense against depression is having support from someone who truly loves and cares for you. This isn't happening here, as it seems, like I mentioned, that there are very few that have real friends they can turn to, who won't turn around and tell others that you have depression, which is where the stigma arises, that you are "sick". Of course, suicides happen worldwide, but because of the previously mentioned problems, it happens a lot here. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 hour ago, EricTh said: People are expected to give positive likes and dislikes are disabled. lol This is BS. In fact this forum was better without these reputation things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Neeranam Posted September 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 hour ago, SiamAndy said: Please bring back the confused /sad faced reactions It's like 1984 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4dang Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 8 minutes ago, Neeranam said: This is BS. In fact this forum was better without these reputation things What about steaming turds? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Meeseeks Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, Neeranam said: This is BS. In fact this forum was better without these reputation things Just following what YouTube and other social media platforms have done. Only positivity allowed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricTh Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said: Just following what YouTube and other social media platforms have done. Only positivity allowed. Youtube allow dislikes except that we can't see it except for the producer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EricTh Posted September 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Neeranam said: It's like 1984 Agree, we should allow angry, disapprove, sad emoticon too. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 8 minutes ago, EricTh said: Agree, we should allow angry, disapprove, sad emoticon too. We are not allowed to discuss :( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenZ Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 17 hours ago, EricTh said: People are expected to give positive likes and dislikes are disabled. lol There never was a dislike. Why do you need a dislike icon? If you don't like something, just ignore it and move on. There's no need for you to upset people by expressing your disapproval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post steven100 Posted September 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2022 3 hours ago, JensenZ said: There never was a dislike. Why do you need a dislike icon? If you don't like something, just ignore it and move on. There's no need for you to upset people by expressing your disapproval. I think a thumbs down icon would be suitable ..... it's a bit like the hotel reviews, you can't disagree with a service or room ... your only allowed to say good things, what's the damn point then, how will anyone ever know what are the bad points about a place. Same here, so you can only like or love a comment .. that's crazy ! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 19 hours ago, d4dang said: What about steaming turds? You find the gif file, you can post it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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