New Depression Treatments Cause The Decline In Suicide Rates
Several researchers state that suicide is depression left untreated. Suicide rates have diminished over the past decade many thanks to new treatments for depression. It ranks 11th as the leading cause of death, and suicide is a very serious subject to deal with and talk about. There are 500,000 unsuccessful suicide attempts every year serious enough to justify or call for a visit to the emergency room.
Each and every completed suicide is a successful attempt. There are several cross currents in analysis of trends in self destruction incidence. There are factors and indications that the trends are not unchanging across race or ethnicity, gender, age, or urban or rural areas. For instance, most of the increase in suicide incidence among adolescents took place between 1950 and 1980.
Little of that increase can be attributed to the varying self murder incidence among females, which have been more stable. Researchers discovered that the increase in adolescent male suicide completion during this period coincided with a considerable increase in alcohol use and consumption. Suicide was among the 10 leading causes of death until 1998, when it was number 8 overall.
Ever since that time, it has been exceeded by deaths due to septicemia (blood poisoning) and Alzheimer