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America's silent mental health crisis

Content Editor: Dr. M Swathi Shenoy

September 8, 2023 at 12:30:00 PM

Mental Health, Non communicable diseases

Content Editor: Dr. M Swathi Shenoy

  • The CDC recently released a report on provisional estimates of suicide in the United States for the year 2022.  

  • The findings of the report are as follows:

  1. In 2022, an estimated 49,449 deaths were by suicide, an increase of 2.6% from 2021.  

  2. Previously, in 2019 and 2020, the rates had decreased.  

  3. However, since 2021, the rates of suicide have increased in the United States. 

  4. However, in two ethnic groups, namely, American Indian and Alaska Native, the rates have decreased since the previous years.  

  • The CDC’s Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program (CSP) is designed to implement and evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, focusing on those disproportionately affected.  

  • The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline suggest five steps to help safeguard people from the risk of suicide and support them when in crisis: 

  1. Ask for help

  2. Help keep them safe by reducing their access to lethal objects. 

  3. Be there and support them.

  4. Help them connect to professionals who can help them  

  5. Follow up

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