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Youth suicides lost mental health support – Wellington Times
Young Australians who have taken their lives are typically disadvantaged males disengaged from work, study and mental health services. That’s the picture pain……
Young Australians who have taken their lives are typically disadvantaged males disengaged from work, study and mental health services.
That’s the picture painted by Orygen researchers in an analysis of coronial records that revealed 3365 people aged 10 to 24 committed suicide from 2006 to 2015.
Their analysis, published in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday, shows 73 per cent of young Australians who died by suicide experienced mental health difficulties before their death.
However, two-thirds…
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