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During the year, SOS Alarm has seen a sharp increase in calls related to suicide, reports Swedish radio Ekot.
During the first eleven months of the year, SOS Alarm received 64,000 suicide-related calls, almost 10,000 more than in the same period last year and more than double the number five years ago.
– We know from previous crises that the effects will come later and there is a risk that there will be a group of people who will stay when society starts again, who will not go to work and still have a difficult situation, says Rickard Bracken, Secretary General for the nonprofit Suicide Zero, which works to reduce the number of suicides, on the radio.
The main cause of the increase is believed to be the corona pandemic and subsequent social changes.
In early December, the Mind organization, responsible for Suicide Line, reported a similar increase. Throughout last year they received 37,000 calls, up to and including November of this year, the number exceeded 50,000. Police have said that as of December 1, they had sounded almost 16,000 alerts about suicide attempts.
Here you can turn if you feel bad
In case of emergency or suicidal ideation, always call 112.
Here is also help:
Mental Suicide Line: Phone: 90101, chat.mind.se, [email protected]
Breeze: Call, email or chat. Telephone: 116111.
Priest on duty: Telephone: 112.
Partner on duty: Phone: 08-702 16 80
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Find the closest clinic at bup.se.
Source: mind.se
