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Memento mori
- Mar 2, 2021
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El suicidio se convierte en la primera causa de muerte entre los jóvenes
La pandemia ha deteriorado gravemente su salud mental y duplicado las urgencias psiquiátricas.
[...] Suicide has become the leading cause of death in young Spanish people, something that has never happened in history since statistics are available. In 2019, 309 people between the ages of 15 and 29 took their lives, a figure that is slightly ahead of traffic accidents, which totaled 307 deaths, according to data from the Spanish Foundation for Suicide Prevention [...]

La pandemia apunta a un cambio de tendencia en los suicidios: aumentan entre los jóvenes y se reducen en los mayores
Si algo trajo la pandemia fue el debate público sobre la salud mental y sus consecuencias para la población. Porque, en el año en que el mundo se paralizó y hubo que recluirse...

[...]But while in those over 60 years of age deaths by suicide fell by 21% (from 128 to 101), the growth was significant among young people between 20 and 39 years old: 30% more suicides in 2020 (from 57 there were went to 82).[...]
[...]Tabarés himself acknowledged that there is an "excess of psychiatric care based on medicalization." "We are one of the countries with the highest consumption of psychotropic drugs (antidepressants, anxiolytics ...)"[...]