suicide statistics

• County Suicide Statistics Shock

Suicide rates in Neath Port Talbot are among the highest in England and Wales. The naming of the county as a suicide blackspot comes as details emerge of yet another suspected teen suicide in nearby Bridgend, after an 18-year-old girl was found hanged on Monday morning. That followed 13 apparent suicides of people aged under 26 in the area in the year up to January.

• South Wales Evening Post
• February 08, 2008

• A Ray of Hope in Dark of Depression ; Martin Freeman Meets with David Evans, Director of Samaritans of Plymouth, to Learn More About the Charity's Work

E'RE told that statistics can be used to prove anything. Consider this one, then: the suicide rate in the South West has gone up 24 per cent since 2008, the start of the current economic slump.

• Plymouth Evening Herald, The
• May 06, 2012

• Anti-Suicide Programmes Should Try to Target Those Most at Risk ; Statistics Show Men in Wales Are More Than Four Times More Likely to Kill Themselves Than Women. But Efforts to Combat Suicides Here Are Failing to Target the Most at-Risk Group. But Am Bethan Jenkins Argues Attempts to Reduce the Suicide Rate Will Struggle to Make an Impact Until They Have a Sharper Focus. Darren Devine Reports

IN 2010 the suicide rate was 19.3 per 100,000 of population for men in Wales and 4.6 for women. s

• Western Mail
• February 09, 2012

• Heartbreak Behind Suicide Statistics

FROM 1960 to 1965 an average of 64 people took their own lives. Since then this number has alarmingly increased seven fold.

• Daily Mirror
• October 10, 2005

• The Rites of Men

AMID the depressingly high statistics for male youth offending, unemployment and suicide, Michael Boyle (right) believes society has forgotten a simple truth - that to grow up at all, boys must somehow be initiated into manhood. While shipbuilding, mining and other now-defunct industries provided a bridge of sorts until recently, this psychotherapist has devised a weekend programme that taps into earthier rites of passage. Much like their tribal forebears, he believes today's young men need a primal, authentic encounter with life before they can truly live it.

• The Herald
• August 14, 2012

• Figures Reveal Extent of Suicide Danger

SUICIDE statistics do not reflect the true extent of Scots at risk of taking their own lives, it has been claimed. A study by Tayside Police, which records every incident where suicide is attempted or threatened, reveals that while the area has on average around four suicides a month, there can be as many as 150 suicide-related incidents.

• The Herald
• July 19, 2012

• ; Letters [Eire Region]

SUICIDE statistics are back in the news. It's a subject that is never far from our minds. There's scarcely a person in the country who hasn't been affected. We need to be far more open about this. We need to look out for people and offer support in times of crisis or if we feel someone is suffering in silence.

• Mail on Sunday
• September 18, 2011

• Murphy's Concern at Suicide Statistics ; Welsh Secretary Tells of His Distress at Cluster of Deaths

HIGH-LEVEL discussions have taken place over the spate of suicides in South Wales prior to a House of Commons debate on the issue this week. Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy has spoken about the tragic cluster of recent deaths with Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan.

• South Wales Echo
• February 06, 2008

• Let's Help Reduce the Pain ; First Person Society Can Work As One to Help Reduce Pain of Suicide, Says Dr Robert M Jaggs-Fowler

THE statistics for suicide are a cause for great concern. The World Health Organisation calculates that every year some one million people worldwide die by suicide, corresponding to one death every 40 seconds. This is more than the annual loss through murder and war combined. Yet, the situation could be far worse as up to 20 times this number of people fail in their attempt at suicide. It is calculated that five per cent of people attempt suicide at least once.

• Grimsby Telegraph
• September 26, 2012

• Men More Likely to Take Own Lives Than Women

MORE than twice as many men in the city died by committing suicide compared to women during 2010, new statistics have revealed. New figures released by Public Health Plymouth have revealed that 23 residents died by suicide, or undetermined injury, in 2010 - an average of two deaths every month. Of those 23 people, 16 were men and seven were women.

• Plymouth Evening Herald, The
• September 12, 2012