@Gavin can you update article with suicide awareness sites.
http://www.sosadireland.ie
http://www.nosp.ie
http://www.yspi.eu/
http://www.samaritans.org/talk_to_someone/find_my_local_branch/ireland/ireland_links.aspx

https://m.facebook.com/pages/Mayfield-Action-on-Suicide/

we lost enough people to suicide. please no more.

Drink can be a factor regarding suicide, the problem is people who had everyday stresses have had those compounded with the recent financial problems, and unemployment, these have tipped many over the edge and sadly there is not always an easy solution, this is affecting everyone across the board in one form or another,I think the most important thing now, is to forget the shame that has prevented the people in crises to seek help and if someone we know seems in need of that support, to give it by listening to them and if needed encourage them to seek the help they may need…

After years of blaming drink along with everything and anything we finally get some quality data. Not before time. It is only with quality data that effective anti-suicide strategies can be formulated. It is time for an end to policy and opinions based on prejudices.

All those responsible for the mess this country is in should be ashamed of this. So so sad….

Anyone reckon the government actually care?
I don’t.. As disgusting as this statement is – it is true: The more people who emigrate or die the less people there are on the live register.
I have arrived at the conclusion that humans matter very little in the world of the almighty market. And that’s the only thing the government care about..

They might care about you when you’re paying tax (because it pays their wages), but goodness forbid that you should get laid off! Then you join the ranks of the demon dole scroungers who apparently have more free money than they know what to do with (funny that.. Anyone I know reliant on the SW is running on empty at the moment).

People no longer matter in this country. If they did, we wouldn’t have so many feeling as though suicide was the only viable way out of the hole our leaders have left us in.

Emile Durkheim figured this out in 1897.

The numbers are frightening. Its sad, something has to be done.

I find it kind of hard to take sometimes, the attitude to depression and suicide….

“You need to do something to have fun”
“You need to talk to someone”
“You need to listen to cheery songs”
“You need to watch comedy films”
“You need to….”
“Click this if you (naively) believe you can stop suicide”

The amount of advice out there is amazing. Often people say “talk to someone” but they don’t really want to be the ones listening to your woes. And sometimes people need their own space and their own time to reflect.

What people often need is not to be TOLD what to do, but to have the offer of an ear. Far better to break the taboo of depression by letting people in general know what the signs are and simply offer the ear rather than telling those not best motivated to do so to go and talk to someone.

Talking is far more likely to happen with the offer of an open ear rather than being told to talk from a distance.

We all knew that the increase in suicide rates is directly related to the recession – yet the government still do nothing to address the problem! Incompetent, neglegent overpaid arrseholes!

TRAGIC TRAGIC TRAGIC.

Why don’t people see through the stats. It is obvious GP’s and psychiatrists are not helping the victims. If the could only be interviewed they would say “they don’t care, shove me off with a prescription for anti depressants and sleeping tablets, leaves me with worse mood swings or Zombie like. No motivation or interest start to become difficult. Can’t cope so they take am overdose ambulance called, paramedics great take u in A&E Leave an agitated person for 4 hours to be seen by a medical doctor, not a consultant or psychiatrist. Then 3 hours later maybe see a psychiatrist a reg. Not a consultant, no they sit in their comfy private rooms making money. After all that your told go home an urgent appointment will be made for the psychiatric services in your area so you take home a vulnerable person whom you can’t monitor 24/7. But your told any problem bring them back to A&E for what or if they are at risk call the guards and you can have the sectioned. Great comfort what family member wants to do this. This cycles happens for some over and over until eventually the person succeeds in ending their life. Families left ruined and heartbroken. So why aren’t the professionals accountable for their patients that die. I’ll tell you because the hide behind the system and this is one service that the customer is never right. People need to be treated with understanding and made feel like their life is worth living. I’m not alone here and many more would back me up. Suicide prevention will never work until the professionals want it too!!

Absolutely terrifying reading! Our goverment should hang there heads in shame! When you consider that there’s more people die of suicide here than are killed on our roads, yet every day on the radio you here about how figures are down from the previous year on our roads! It’s Ireland’s ugliest open secret! It just highlights the fact that it has become near unbearable to live here!thanks to our thieving I don’t give a shit government!!!

It’s so sad to see this epidemic sweeping the country, there probably isn’t a family that hasn’t been touched by suicide, people please talk, if the person didn’t get you please try someone else!!! There are fantastic organisations out there that are under resourced they need more government support!

While accepting the previous commenters thoughts on the influence of alcohol, being only a contributing factor, regarding depression and suicide, I think that there is another element involved that is not much mentioned. That is, the psychological depression that can result from withdrawal from alcohol. Many people do not equate alcohol with depression because the majority of people who drink alcohol generally feel elated etc. , and therefore cannot understand how it could be described as a depressive drug, except if it was understood to mean the physiological depression of the central nervous system only. No offence meant to the poster who described that effect. You are correct. However, there is little or no information given to the general public about the, for some, devastating psychological depression that follows the cessation of drinking. This lack of knowledge can lead some people to assume that their depressed state that they find themselves in, only applies to them, which in turn can lead to a paranoid state where they assume incorrectly, that the depression they are experiencing is solely because of themselves. I just think, that if more people knew that post drinking depression is so much more common than they realised, then they might not feel so alone and desperate.

Too much of the ‘blame game’ going on here. The Government, the HSE, the Church, the ‘Recession Depression’. It is so much easier to pass the fault on to some faceless entity thereby absolving ourselves. The problem comes from within us and our changing way of living. The single greatest factor behind suicide is the breakdown of COMMUNITY. When people lived in much closer larger, extended family groups, villages, towns, the isolation factor was not there. Even the ‘village idiot’ was well cared for. Modern living sets us out on our own. We move out and away. We spend longer periods in our own introspective company. It produces the ‘loner’, the single individuals with no group backup. The rate of suicide among close-knit communities is practically non-existent. So, if you really want to understand what is behind this escalation of self-extermination, look within ourselves and those around you. Concentrate on reviving and keeping the ‘community spirit’ alive and vibrant. Don’t shun and ostracize the old, the odd, the lesser individuals. It’s US, the human family, that needs protection, preservation and constant looking after. Fáilte.