[afro-nets] On World Mental Health Day, UN Calls for Greater Efforts to Tackle Suicide (2)

["George Kent" <kent@hawaii.edu>]

On World Mental Health Day, UN Calls for Greater Efforts to Tackle Suicide (2)
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In India, farmers are committing suicide by the thousands, mainly because they get into overwhelming debt. To cast suicide simply as a problem of mental illness helps to evade recognition that people who commit suicide might be embedded in unbearable social structures.

Aloha, George
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