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The Feel of Depression• “I am 6 feet tall. The way I have felt these pastfew months, it is as though I am in a very smallroom, and the room is filled with water, up toabout 5’ 10”, and my feet are glued to the floor,and its all I can do to breathe.”Gatekeeper Training- Dr. EllenAnderson 11Is Suicide Really a Problem?• 83 people complete suicide every day• 32,466 people in 2005 in the US• Over 1,000,000 suicides worldwide(reported)• This data refers to completed suicides thatare documented by medical examiners – it isestimated that 2-3 times as many actuallycomplete suicideGatekeeper Training- Dr. EllenAnderson(Surgeon General’s Report on Suicide, 1999)126
The Unnoticed Death• For every 2 homicides, 3 people completesuicide yearly– data that has been constantfor 100 years• During the Viet Nam War from 1964-1972, we lost 55,000 troops, and 220,000people to suicideGatekeeper Training- Dr. EllenAnderson13Comparative Rates Of U.S. Suicides-2005• Rates per 100,000 population• National average - 11 per 100,000*• White males - 19.9• African-American males - 9.1 **• Hispanic males - 10.7• Asians - 5.2• Caucasian females - 4.8• African American & Hispanic females - 1.5• Males over 85 - 67.6• Annual Attempts – 810,000 (estimated)• 150-1 completion for the young - 4-1 for the elderly(*AAS website),**(Significant increases have occurred among African Americans inGatekeeper Training- Dr. Ellen the past 10 years - Toussaint, 2002)Anderson147
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