B. Tech Student Suicide: Shivam’s suicide leaves the question: Why does mental stress take the path of death?

Shivam commits suicide

Sharda University Suicide Case: This world is not for me. I am just a useless person.…… by writing these notes, a student doing B.Tech committed suicide by hanging himself in the room. Shivam Dey, a resident of Madhubani, Bihar, was studying from Sharda University in Greater Noida. He has not held anyone responsible for his death. However, he wrote one thing in the suicide note that he was in mental stress and pressure and could not withstand it.

Perhaps this mental stress is the cause of his suicide? Mantle health experts also say that a major cause of suicide is mental stress. Although it does not cause suicide directly, it gives rise to depression. Mental stress starts to go into depression gradually. A person can stay in depression even for a month, 6 months or even a year. Which later causes suicide.

Now the question is also how mental stress takes suicide?

Its About Dr. AK Vishwakarma in the Department of Psychiatry at District Hospital in Ghaziabad It is said that mental stress can happen to anyone. Work pressure, job worry, family issues .. It is in every human life, it causes stress, it comes and goes, but when you always stay stress, it can become fatal.

Dr. Vishwakarma says that neurochemical changes begin in the sebrain living under mental stress for a long time. This causes lack of good hormones (serotonin and dopamins) in the brain. A person is always unhappy with this deficiency. He starts feeling more sorrow and trouble. This affects his mental health and he gradually starts going into depression. Depression causes a negative thought pattern in the brain. In such a situation, a person feels that there is no way left. In this situation, he sees suicide as a ‘final solution’ and kills himself.

In the case of Shivam, something similar seems to be the same. Due to prolonged mental stress, he got depression which took to suicide, although the real address of the case will come out only after the police investigation.

How to know that a person is under mental stress?

Former Dr. Rajkumar Srivas of the Department of Psychiatry of Delhi AIIMS about this It is said that depression is the cause of 90 percent in all the suicides of suicides occurring around the world. But this is not at all. From stress to depression and suicide, a long period goes on. Which can also be stopped. Its symptoms also appear in the person.

If a person has become more calm than before and likes to be alone. Small things start getting frustrated. If there is a constant sadness and it starts talking negatively, then it is the initial symptoms of persistence of mental stress. Some physical symptoms also appear. Like sleeplessness or sleeping too much or loss of appetite. If you see such symptoms in yourself or in an acquaintance, then you should consult a psychiatrist. Its identity and treatment can be avoided in depression in time.

Suicide figures in India

According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)

Every year more than 1.64 lakh people commit suicide in India.

About 36% of these cases are of youth of 1830 years.

Problems of education pressure, unemployment and relationships are among the main reasons.

What to do for mental health do not deteriorate?

If there is any problem of life, then definitely share it

Exercise daily

Do yoga and meditation

If you are under mental stress, consult a psychiatrist

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