What can you do to help your child when it is invaded by suicidal ideas? Can we see the crises arrive, anticipate them? How to react to avoid the worst? These questions resonate in families where a teenager is suffering. And beyond: the subject settled in the public debate, after the 2020 health crisis and repeated confinements, which experienced the mental health of young people.
Investigation after investigation, the figures accumulate, as so many alerts: the last monitoring bulletin for suicidal behaviors, published in May-although it relates to 2023-has focused on these young girls and young women from 11 to 24 years old who present the highest rate of hospitalization for self-inflicted gesture (self-control, suicide attempts), in particular in the age group of 15 to 17 years, 737 hospitalizations per 100,000 inhabitants. A record, compared to other age groups and boys. The trend had already been underlined, in May 2024, in a study published by the statistical services of social ministries, which qualified the progression of “Brutal and unprecedented”.
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