A 15-year-old girl in California committed suicide after reportedly struggling to cope with the 'stay-at-home' orders of the state amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Jo'Vianni Smith was found inside her home lifeless last week after she hanged herself.
Barriers exist when attempting to access professional treatment for the prevention and treatment of suicidal ideation and suicide, particularly for men and people of color.
While conversations about social, educational and economic status of Latinas regularly mark the front of newspapers, talks about mental and emotional health aren't visited with the same regularity. Depression and suicide rates have increased for young Hispanic women. Also, Latinas are less likely to receive mental health support than White women or African American women, but one effective way for Latinas to address mental health challenges in their lives is for them to find their voices.
In 2006, Robin Williams sought assistance for his depression but wasn't diagnosed with clinical depression. Likewise, many in the Latino community who show signs of severe depression go undiagnosed and untreated, leaving them susceptible to effects of the serious disorder.
Two senior American bankers have been found dead in London over the course of two days in incidents where they both committed suicide. The latest fatal comes from Gabriel Magee, who plunged to his death 500 ft from the 33-store high skyscraper.
Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, who was suspected of committing suicide on Sept. 3 by hanging, may have had something more lewd in mind. The man who was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison, found in his jail cell dangling by way of his bed-sheet, could have been practicing auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Tragedy struck a New York Latino family when their 12-year-old daughter took her own life after relentless bullying by her classmates, both online and in school.
