• Health "Let's talk about adolescent suicide and save lives"

The

attempted suicide and self -

harm

in children and adolescents

have increased by 250% because of the pandemic

, according warned Thursday the

Official College of Psychology of Madrid

, which has called for

more resources to deal with this "silent epidemic" .

The experts who have participated in the presentation of the initiative 'Let's talk about ... Suicide', organized from that same school,

have called on public officials to create a national suicide plan

, since there are already regional

plans

in some communities autonomous.

They

have

also

requested the launch of a specialized telephone

, similar to the one that attends to victims of gender violence.

Leading cause of unnatural death among young people

According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE),

in 2019 3,671 people committed suicide in Spain

- 2,771 men and 900 women-, a figure that,

in reality, "should be multiplied by two or three

", since many of the cases of Suicides are recorded as another type of death, experts have indicated.

Suicide is the

main cause of unnatural death among young people between 15 and 29 years old

, something that had not happened since data is recorded and that specialists relate to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We cannot consider mental disorder and suicide synonyms because not all people who commit suicide have a mental disorder,"

the dean of the Official College of Psychology of Madrid, José Antonio Luengo, has warned.

The coordinator of the program,

Luis Fernando López

, has stressed, for his part, the

importance of preventive treatment in mental health

and has described the pandemic as "one of the toughest and most fragile stages in our recent history" in this regard .

"The ratio of psychologists in the National Health System is ridiculous"

In addition, it has considered that this problem should not be treated from an exclusively clinical point of view, but as a

phenomenon that also has a social and technological dimension

.

During the presentation of the initiative,

Román Reyes

, whose mother committed suicide in November 2019 after several attempts and admissions

, has intervened

: "If I had something clear from the beginning, it is that I had to say the cause of his death, because if you see the figures , the probability that it touches you is beastly, "he explained.

"He went to the hospital and they gave him a pill," complains Reyes, who denounces that his mother "would be alive if she had had a support network and psychological care."

"We always breastfeed with the public health of our country, but the mental health situation is insane,"

Reyes lamented.

The experts have demanded more means to face this problem, since they consider that "the ratio of psychologists in the National Health System is ridiculous, not only if we compare it with Europe, but with the resources that are necessary", he pointed out. the dean of the Madrid College.

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