TRADITIONS RULE LIFE OR ENDS LIFE.....

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful...And one most important things in life is know how to keep problems from tackling you first....

 

India is one of the country who has rich in cultures and traditions but sad to say one of those countries where the world's suicide capital.....specifically the south India....

• Out of every three cases of suicide reported every 15 minutes in India, one is committed by a youth in the age group of 15 to 29.
• In the Union Territory of Pondicherry, every month at least 15 youths between the ages of 15 and 25 commit suicide.
• In 2002, there were 10,982 suicides in Tamil Nadu, 11,300 in Kerala, 10,934 in Karnataka, and 9,433 in Andhra Pradesh.
• In 2003, the largest number of farmers -- around 175 -- committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh.
• Kerala, the country's first fully literate state, has the highest number of suicides. Some 32 people commit suicide in Kerala every day
  (this according to rediff.com)
   These statistics are startling. Southern India is the country's information technology hub. The southern region is competing with northern India to become the country's economic powerhouse.But south India has another distinction, one that it would rather not have: the region accounts for the world's largest number of suicides by young people, according to The Lancet, the respected British medical journal.Some 50,000 people in the four states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and the Union Territory of Pondicherry kill themselves every year. This statistic becomes even more alarming when you consider that the total number of suicide cases recorded in the whole of India in 2002 was 154,000.The Lancet has published an authoritative study on suicides in southern India in its April edition. The study says the suicide rates among young men and women in southern India are the highest in the world.

  Experts like him put forward various reasons for the dismal state of mental health among people in the South.Some of these reasons, which mental health experts term 'acute stress factors,' include:

  • Family conflicts, domestic violence, academic failures, and unfulfilled romantic ideals.
  • Voracious appetite for high-end consumer goods spurred by moneylenders and hire-purchase schemes.
  • The wide gap between people's aspirations and actual capabilities.
  • The disintegration of traditional social support mechanisms as was prevalent in joint families.
  • Emergence of a trend towards nuclear families, alcohol abuse, financial instability and family dysfunction.
  • A growing population of the aged.
  • Failure of crops, huge debt burdens, growing costs of cultivation, and shrinking yield. 
      "Children are not brought up peacefully. They are under pressure to deliver at school; they are under pressure to appear for competitive examinations. After they reach puberty, no one in the family gives them any advice about the meaning of life."
    "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. A man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years,but on your will......