Suicide prevention is our business

RAGE, devastating grief, helplessness and immense guilt are among the gamut of emotions that assail me almost every time I read a death by suicide in newspapers or social media. Isn’t this being over dramatic, one might wonder, coming from a psychiatrist who should have “toughened up” and gotten used to dealing with suicide as one’s bread and butter, so to speak?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “every suicide is a tragedy that affects families, communities and entire countries and has long-lasting effects on the people left behind.”