suicide
Inter-Caste Marriage: My Parents Are Threatening to Commit Suicide
I belong to the general caste and my boyfriend is from a scheduled caste. We are in love with each other for the last 3 years and we want to get married and start a new life and it doesn’t matter to us if it’s an inter-caste marriage. My parents won’t accept an inter-caste marriage …
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I escaped from an abusive marriage but am getting suicidal thoughts
Question: Dear Ma’a,m. I am a divorcee. I have gone through four years of mental pain in my marriage. I have no job, no marriage proposals, my father always worries about me. Now I want to end my life. I can’t make myself happy. I feel like I am a burden on my family. I …
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Strictly avoid thoughts of suicide when you face rejection in love
Suicide rates are high in India’s young people India has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, especially in the 15-29 age group. Latest government figures on causes of suicide reveal that over 12% of suicides were directly related to matters of the heart – marriage, divorce, affair, love affair, suspected/illicit relations, etc. …
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I have a history of attempted suicide
Dear ma’am, I have a history of attempted suicide. I’m emotionally low right now. I don’t run to save my life in situations where I might get hurt physically. I keep getting visions of jumping off a high floor, the ceiling falling… and other ways how my life might end. At this moment I fail to find a reason …
My daughter’s bad marriage drove her to attempt suicide.
Hello Dr Snigdha, My daughter and son-in-law live abroad. They have been married for six years now but they haven’t got along well till now. They even have a three-year-old daughter but things have only gone from bad to worse. My son-in-law likes to drink and smoke a lot and is an outdoor person who …
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Why her mother never left her father but committed suicide instead
(Names changed to protect identities) Roshni Raj, my mother, committed suicide when I was 14. She had been married to my father for two decades, and for almost the same amount of time lived in anxiety, panic attacks and depression and had suffered a nervous breakdown. She had the perfect life – a stable marriage, …
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