What's Behind Thailand's Alarming Suicide Rate?

[cdnmatt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nsYZ1rXEg

Thought some may find this of interest. Aside from the sub-titles with no audio overlay, seems decent.

Talks a decent amount about sex workers and the hardships Kovid has caused them since they're not eligible for government assistance.

[Armando]

Even before covid19 and other periods of major economic hardship like the 1997 Asian Economic crisis, Thailand still had the largest suicide rate in Asia. In 2019 the WHO estimated 14.4 suicides per 100,000 of the population. Every 10 minutes there is a suicide attempt.

As interesting to my mind is that the next highest country in this part of the world is wealthy Singapore where the rate is 11.2 per 100,000. Suicide there is the leading cause of death for those aged between 10 - 29 and there were 3 times more suicide deaths overall than those killed in traffic accidents.