Role of Mental Health in understanding and Preventing Suicide

Abstract

Suicide is an important mental health problem in our society, as it is in most of the world’s developednations. It’s an affliction that robs us of some of our community’s most active leaders. It is a most troublingtype of mental disease to imagine, a mental disorder in which the victim’s pain and fear causes him to preferdeath to his misery. Suicide is widespread. Most communities have earlier treated suicide as a felony andhave instituted laws to restrict the act and prosecute those who attempt it whereas the notion have changedand now individuals who try or commit suicide are frequently viewed as depressed or mentally unstable.This Covid(Corona virus) pandemic had made the situation worse because many people are taking helpfrom professionals for the first time due to severe increase of anxiety and stress. During this lockdownperiod many have developed suicidal tendencies and seeking physicians’ help. After the suicide of famousbollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput many are talking about the mental health awareness. In this presentpaper we will analyze the problem of suicide, mental health care laws and suicide regulation and somestrategies for suicide prevention.