SUICIDE IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC: Since the beginning of the pandemic disease well over a year ago, the planet seems paralyzed. Unfortunately, there are also deaths from heart attack, stroke, cancer or suicide, to name just a few. According to the World Health Organization, a suicide is registered on the planet every 40 seconds. 1,896 people lost their lives in traffic accidents in the State in 2018, compared to 3,539 people who died by suicide. Behind every death there are many damaged people and a lot of suffering.
Jon García Hormaza, a psychiatrist at the Nosocomio de Zamudio and a doctor in Neurosciences from the UPV / EHU, warns that "the loss of previous socioeconomic status can act as a fundamental precipitant of suicidal behaviors in vulnerable people with other risk components". Those people - he adds - "could take suicide into account as a probability of getting out of an unbearable situation." The psychiatrist recalls that "people who die by suicide do not want to die, which they want is to end up with extremely intense and unbearable suffering for which they see no other way out." In criticizing the health professional, and bearing in mind what happened in other natural disasters, armed conflicts or economic crises, “it is in the medium term once the incidence of deaths by suicide can increase, especially among individuals with more risk components ”.
From the group of individuals damaged by the suicide of a precious being, Biziraun, they denounce that today "Osakidetza does not have a specific resource" designated to this group. Sources of the group comment that by the way, once a person who had already been treated by Osakidetza dies by suicide, there is no standardized protocol to attend to the family nucleus.
The wrong news has existed constantly, however the pandemic disease, with more people looking at social networks and over a longer period of time, has greatly strengthened them, accelerating and extending their dissemination.
"All political institutions, governments, states, have appeared in the face of the pandemic disease as doubting entities, who did not know how to face situations, with major errors, how could it be otherwise, that is, doing what that they could, given the reasoning that was available ”, guarantees Aierdi, who added that, in conclusion,“ people seek assurances that cannot be provided in an important part of the world based on the political-institutional truth ”. According to Aierdi, “the recent networks provide a millionaire probability of probable emitters for millions of probable receivers, since credible, non-contrasted information can achieve great diffusion speeds and intensities.
This environment of information saturation received through various channels makes it difficult to distinguish between true and erroneous news. The sociologist Xavier Aierdi suspects that, with regard to the pandemic disease, they may not have the possibility of reversing at the moment "because we are in the middle of a greasy process and it is quite difficult to modify all this dynamics." Fundamentally, from the beginning of the pandemic disease, EITB Media launched a citizen participation service to deny false news related to covid-19 as a Public Service to allow access to reliable, verified and quality information.