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Guyana first needs to understand depression

Dec 06, 2015 News

… before tackling suicide
Due to the rise in the number of young people committing suicide, the Guyana Women and Gender Equality Commission commented on this situation at a recent press conference.
Chairperson of the Commission, Indra Chandarpal, said that there is an urgent need for the public to begin to understand depression in order to understand the reasons many choose to end their lives.
“It is not good enough to say that only people who are cowards take their lives. There are people who are educated, middle class and everything who are unable to cope and therefore decide to walk away from everything.”
The public, said Chandarpal, needs to be educated on issues that often lead to depression. A lot of people, she said, do not “understand things such as post partum depression. It is left just as a natural thing and its left hanging there.”
Chandarpal intimated that the best thing is to try not to label people. “We often do not understand the emotional trauma many of them face. The concept of isolation is a driving factor behind depression.”
While not making a direct link between depression and suicide, Chandarpal said that social media is sadly making introverts out of a lot of us. “We are slowly removing ourselves from people and not learning how to interact.”
With these things in mind, Ms. Chandarpal recommended that communities get more involved in interventions and provide safe places to help victims of various issues such as depression and violence.
She said that while the commission had toyed with the idea of using pilot projects, “unfortunately everything came down to the availability of resources.”

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