Scourge of depression sees rising number of suicides, report Cang Wei and Song Wenwei in Nanjing.
Posted on February 28, 2013 by
Staggering base rate…
Dark days of despair drive many to the final option
Updated: 2013-02-27 09:20
By Cang Wei and Song Wenwei in Nanjing/China Daily
Scourge of depression sees rising number of suicides, report Cang Wei and Song Wenwei in Nanjing. Every three minutes, a person suffering from depression commits suicide in China and a further 11 people attempt to take their own lives.Every year in China, 287,000 people end their lives by suicide, while another 2 million contemplate the act, 70 percent of them because of depression.
via Dark days of despair drive many to the final option[1]|chinadaily.com.cn.