Even nurses aren’t immune to the stigma of suicide
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Sarah Fitchett, University of Salford
In England, one person dies every two hours as a result of suicide. And it is the leading cause of death for young people, both male and female, in the UK – every year around 1,600 children and young people aged ten to 34 take their own lives.
Childline receives an average of one call every 30 minutes from British children with suicidal thoughts – that works out at 19,481 in the last year alone. This is more than double the number of five years ago. And yet, we still aren’t talking about it.
Part of the problem is that people are scared of having conversations about suicide. So while relatives and friends may be able to recognise that something is seriously wrong, they may be afraid to intervene for fear that they might say or do “the wrong thing”.
And it isn’t just relatives and friends who don’t know what to say. After 25 years of NHS nursing ...
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