Teen suicide case in Uttar Pradesh
A 12-year-old student reportedly committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district as he was “disrupted” by his father’s inability to pay school fees, police said.
Anup Kumar (18) shot himself with a country gun on Wednesday, after his father told him that he could not make enough money in order to pay his school tuition fee, Police Deputy Superintendent Mahendra Kumar said.
The deceased father, Parmeshwar Dayal, employed as a worker, said his son asked Rs 8,000 two months ago to pay a school fee to the police. He confronted his father about the money again on Wednesday.
The corpse of the deceased had been sent to post-mortem, the police said.
The year 2020 was hard on everyone and a huge surge in the cases of suicide has been noticed especially when we talk about the youth. According to the psychologists, the pressure on their mental health enforced them to take such negative steps Being at home during the shutdown is a difficult and demanding situation for a few children. Lockdown and school closing also mean that children no longer have school as a means to withdraw from troubled families.
Many children are suffering from mental distress as a result of a number of psychosocial stressors, including extended captivity in a violent home setting, inadequate contact, loss of engagement (in-person) with friends and teachers, study-related strain, apprehensions about attending online classes, lack of suitable facility to attend online classes, family financial hardship, and overuse of technology.
The online news media reported 369 suicide cases and attempted suicides after the COVID lockdown vs. 220 in 2019.
“Global Burden of Disease Research, 1990–2017.” According to the report, almost 197 million Indians suffer from psychiatric illnesses, with 45.7 million suffering from depression symptoms and 44.9 million from anxiety disorders. Suicide rates in India are highest in the 15-29 age group among the young demographic, according to a 2012 Lancet survey. in consonance with the study, men aged 15 to 29 account for 40% of suicides, while women account for nearly 60%.
