To decrease stigma and provide postvention care and support to the families of those who lost their lives to suicide, NIMHANS has initiated a Suicide Loss Survivors (SLS) forum. The first session of the forum was held on the institute premises on Friday, ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on September 10.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, as many as 1,64,033 suicides were reported in India in 2021.
Shekhar P. Seshadri, former Senior Professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NIMHANS, who moderated the session, said the feelings that arise during the loss of a loved one to suicide, the confusion, the guilt, the stigma, the shame, often goes unattended and unheard. “Postvention helps these survivors of suicide loss to address this predicament that they are going through,” he said.
