12-03-2018, 01:56 PM
(12-03-2018, 11:57 AM)jeffster Wrote:(12-02-2018, 10:39 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I dunno, that would be sad, but multiple students die each year from suicide and I've been watching as very little has been done about that for years.
I suspect the burning of someone's car, or other vandalism would probably result in a stronger response, but maybe I'm just bitterly cynical.
Well, I believe that certain services should be included with our OHIP (psychology). However, there are still a lot of services that attempt to deal with these mental health issues. I think it's similar to dealing with the homelessness. You can do everything you can, it still won't prevent much of the suicides and the mental illness that leads up to it.
I do believe too, that if the schools concentrated on this issue, the numbers would go down. Though to be honest, I really don't know what programs the school have running and how they educate students and staff currently.
What do you think would be a solution to this problem (suicide)?
I don't really have solutions, I just know during my time, it really wasn't talked about. I think there was a suicide while I was there, but I couldn't find any news about it or any discussion, and there wasn't much discussion of support. I was lucky enough to stay with family, but I can imagine how isolating it would be to live on campus alone for the first time, at the time, it was very much cut off from the greater community.
I also know people who tried to use the support services themselves, and they faced problems of weeks or even months of wait time.