Is Suicide rate still high?

B-D-P--

There's not a home in Ireland this subject doesn't affect sadly.

Earlier on in this decade, near once a month if not more sadly, the news would break of a suicide in a neighboring town, a cousins friend or if your unlucky closer.

Lately, it seems to have calmed in my own walk of life.

Hoping that all the buzz surrounding mental health, all the work Peata house is doing, and the improvement in economy is helping people feel like there is light at the end of their dark tunnel.

I say hoping, because I am out of touch with the secondary and college age bracket and maybe I just don't hear of it anymore.

I know that depression doesn't affect just this group of people, but growing up, that's where I heard it most.

Whats peoples opinion, Do they see an improvement in mental health here in Ireland in the last half decade?

banie01

B-D-P-- wrote: »

There's not a home in Ireland this subject doesn't affect sadly.

Earlier on in this decade, near once a month if not more sadly, the news would break of a suicide in a neighboring town, a cousins friend or if your unlucky closer.

Lately, it seems to have calmed in my own walk of life.

Hoping that all the buzz surrounding mental health, all the work Peata house is doing, and the improvement in economy is helping people feel like there is light at the end of their dark tunnel.

I say hoping, because I am out of touch with the secondary and college age bracket and maybe I just don't hear of it anymore.

I know that depression doesn't affect just this group of people, but growing up, that's where I heard it most.

Whats peoples opinion, Do they see an improvement in mental health here in Ireland in the last half decade?

Suicide in Ireland is high, but what is more worrying about it is the extent to which it is underreported.
The level of evidence required for a Coroner to return a verdict of suicide is quite stringent, it must be proven that the deceased intended beyond any shadow of a doubt to take their life.
I know of many many instances of suicide that were ruled as misadventure.

If one looks at the rate of hospital admissions for self harm versus the reported morbidity rate of suicide a quite stark and immediate incongruity stands out.
For the sake of mental health funding and services, more accurate reporting of suicide is required.