Youth suicide rate is the highest country in the world: Facebook India pushes suicide prevention tools – Facebook, suicide-IT information

On June 16, according to the Internet news blog Mashable reported that Facebook was recently in India has launched a new feature, users can find and help those with suicidal tendencies, to prevent them from eventual self-harmful behavior.

Last year, India Bollywood actress Dipika·PA Courtney (Deepika Padukone) talk openly about her struggle with depression experience. Dipika conversation in India has caused people to talk about mental illness, this topic in India community is still taboo.

Recently, Facebook in India has launched a new tool to help suicidal India users, partners mental health institutions Aasra and Dipika Live Love Laugh Foundation Foundation.

Facebook in India has 148 million users, they are free to use this new tool. If the user finds a friend in Facebook depression or have suicidal tendencies, they can provide help or report directly to Facebook.

"Under normal circumstances, if you find that your friend or loved one has suicidal tendencies, not knowing what to do. They were worried, but they're afraid of saying the wrong thing, to some extent, makes the situation worse. "Facebook India Anka·DASI, Director of public policy (Ankhi Das) said.

Last February, the Facebook in the United States first launched a suicide-prevention tools, partners are Now Matters Now United States mental health institutions.

"In society, people often taboo to talk about mental illness and suicide. Facebook is a place where people exchange and sharing. "Das added," according to the cooperating institutions and our own research, communicate with each other is an important method for suicide prevention. ”

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, India is the country with the highest suicide rates in the world. However, discuss depression and mental health in India is still taboo.

Facebook this new tool helps solve this problem. "People didn't talk openly about mental illness and suicide. However, conversation and communication is the key to the prevention of depression and suicide. "Live Love Laugh Foundation Foundation President Anna Chandy said.

Dipika is first to talk openly about depression and mental health one of the importance of public figures, and she set up Live Love Laugh Foundation Foundation, provide support for those people who have psychological problems and dissemination of knowledge on depression.

"India is one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world. Get in communication with those young people with psychiatric problems and encourage them to seek help, which is of particular importance. "Said Dipika. "The whole society needs to understand the importance of this issue, people should become more sensitive, discover our relatives, friends or neighbors in the depression, and can lead them to seek professional help. ”

How Facebook suicide prevention tool

If Facebook users found that this friend has friends post spiritual depression or suicidal tendencies, they can communicate directly with the friend to help them get in contact with mental health professionals, or send this post to Facebook. Facebook's dedicated team of 24-hour surveillance and to review the post marked, and reports to the most serious.

Then Facebook will have depression or suicidal user sends a pop-up window. In this pop-up page, Facebook gives you several options, the user can choose to communicate with a friend, or call the suicide hotline (or text) to get self-help advice and self-help resources.

If the user chooses to call the hotline, they can get Aasra, Live Love Laugh Foundation Foundation professionals advice.

In addition, Facebook also launched a "Guide to help a friend (a Friend In Need Help Guide)", to guide people to identify signs of depression and suicidal thoughts, and provide steps to help depression, and mental health of the contacts. The guide is Facebook and Jay Foundation (Jed Foundation) and the Clinton Foundation (Clinton Foundation), developed in cooperation, now offer ten language versions, including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, and Tamil. (Tan Si)

全球青年自杀率最高国家：Facebook印度推防自杀工具 - Facebook,自杀 - IT资讯

6月16日报道，据互联网新闻博客Mashable报道，Facebook最近在印度推出了一个新功能，可以发现并帮助那些有自杀倾向的用户，以防止他们最终作出自我伤害的行为。

去年，印度宝莱坞女演员迪皮卡·帕度柯妮（Deepika Padukone）公开谈论她与抑郁症斗争经历。迪皮卡的谈话在印度引起了人们对精神疾病的谈论，这个话题在印度社会尚属禁忌。

最近，Facebook在印度推出了一个新的工具，以帮助有自杀倾向印度用户，合作方是心理健康机构Aasra和迪皮卡·的Live Love Laugh Foundation基金会。

Facebook在印度拥有的1.48亿用户，他们都可以免费使用这个新的工具。如果用户在Facebook上发现某个朋友精神抑郁或具有自杀倾向，他们可以直接提供帮助或者报告Facebook。

“通常情况下，人们如果发现自己的朋友或亲人具有自杀倾向，不知道该怎么办。他们很担心，但他们又害怕说错话，在某种程度上使情况变得更糟。”Facebook印度地区公共政策总监安卡·达斯（Ankhi Das）说。

去年2月，Facebook在美国首先推出了预防自杀的工具，合作方是Now Matters Now等美国心理卫生机构。

“在社会上，人们往往忌讳谈论精神疾病和自杀问题。Facebook是人们交流和分享的地方。”达斯补充说，“根据合作机构和我们自己的研究，保持沟通是预防自杀的重要方法。”

据世界卫生组织（WHO）的报告，印度是全球自杀率最高的国家。然而，讨论抑郁症和心理健康在印度仍然是禁忌。

Facebook的这个新工具有助于解决这个问题。“人们不公开谈论精神疾病和自杀。然而，谈话和沟通是预防抑郁症和自杀的关键。”Live Love Laugh Foundation基金会主席Anna Chandy说。

迪皮卡是最早公开谈论抑郁症和心理健康重要性的公众人物之一，而且她建立了Live Love Laugh Foundation基金会，为那些有心理问题的人们提供支持并传播关于抑郁症的知识。

“印度是全球青年自杀率最高的国家之一。与那些有精神问题的青年取得沟通并鼓励他们寻求帮助，这是特别重要的。”迪皮卡说。“全社会都需要懂得这个问题的重要性，人们在这方面应该变得更加敏感，及时发现我们的亲人、朋友或者邻居中的精神抑郁者，并能引导他们寻求专业帮助。”

Facebook的防自杀工具是怎样的

Facebook的用户如果在朋友的帖子中发现这位朋友有精神抑郁问题或者自杀倾向，他们可以直接与这位朋友沟通，帮助他们与心理健康专业人士的取得联系，或者将这个帖子发送给Facebook。Facebook的专门团队会二十四小时监视并审查这些被标记的帖子，并提交最严肃的报告。

然后，Facebook向会有精神抑郁者或有自杀倾向的用户发出一个弹出窗口。在这个弹出的页面中，Facebook会给出几个选项，用户可以选择与一个朋友沟通，或者拨打自杀求助热线（也可发短信）以获得自救建议和自助资源。

如果用户选择拨打热线，他们可以得到Aasra或Live Love Laugh Foundation基金会专业人士的建议。

此外，Facebook还推出了“帮助朋友指南（Help A Friend In Need Guide）”，以指导人们识别精神抑郁迹象和自杀倾向，并为他们提供帮助精神抑郁者的步骤，以及心理卫生机构的联系方式。该指南是Facebook与杰德基金会（Jed Foundation）和克林顿基金会（Clinton Foundation）合作开发的，现在提供十个地区语言的版本，包括印地文、孟加拉语、卡纳达语和泰米尔语。（谭思）