about suicidal feelings. 1 in 6 people in a lifetime experience suicidal
thoughts according to one of the highest quality studies in the UK
(Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007).
Yet talking about it in public is weird. Speaking about it is still
strange to many people. It is a taboo and I guess that some people think
it's a taboo because it may increase the suicide rate if people spoke
about it. My opinion is it may not change or it might reduce the suicide
rate. I think in the short term there would be no change but in the long
term as society became accepting of the normality of suicidal feelings
and people became willing to accept the truth that 1 in 6 people have
these feelings at some point then perhaps things may get better.
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