NABABAHALA si San Jose del Monte City Rep. Rida Robes sa pagtaas ng suicide rate sa bansa.
Ayon kay Robes, chairman ng House committee on peoples participation, batay sa report ng World Health Organization noong 2017, anim na lalaki at dalawang babae kada 100,000 ang suicide rate sa bansa.
Mahigit sa 2,000 kaso ng suicide ang naitala mula 2000-2012 at karamihan sa mga nagpakamatay ay edad 15-29 taong gulang.
Sinabi ni Robes na nakababahala rin ang pagtaas ng bilang ng mga taong may depresyon sa bansa.
“I am alarmed that depression gets to become a “common cold” in this country, affecting some 3,300,000 Filipinos. It is recognized by our own Department of Health as a “serious health condition”, and the weight of “haplessness”, “hopelessness” and “helplessness” – the three dreaded “H” symptoms of depression – gravitate towards what now are the new high-risk group: the young population.”
Ayon sa WHO, umaabot sa 3,000 katao ang nagpapakamatay kada araw sa buong mundo o isa ang nagpapakamatay kada 40 segundo.
“While not every depressed person attempts or commits suicide, most people, however, who kill themselves are dealing with depression. The AFSP concedes a strong correlation between the two: sixty percent of major depressions lead to death.”
Sinabi ni Robes na mahalagang magabayan ng mga magulang ang kanilang mga anak at gugulan ng sapat na oras ang mga ito.
“School life has become source of high levels of stress, as well. Our senior high school students speak of difficulty coping with increased pressure and stress with the lumping of too many difficult subjects, too many academic requirements, lack of guidance and counseling, heightened competition and increasing level of expectation from teachers and parents. Our students are lacking in formal values education or “pagpapahalaga” as this, as a stand-alone subject, is now removed from the curriculum and, instead, is integrated in the study of other subject areas.”