She later told her friends there had been previous suicide attempts, but she had kept them private. She overdosed on Tylenol in December 2013 and was admitted to the General campus of The Ottawa Hospital. Amour, whose suicide inquest heard earlier this month that he had planned to strip naked and freeze to death in a cemetery “because I have more in common with the dead than the living.”Īfter she graduated in 2012, Richards embarked on a degree in social work at Carleton University. It was one of several diagnoses given to Justin St. An inquest into the suicide death of Carleton University student Jason Simon heard in January that an emergency room psychiatrist suspected Simon had BPD. They are constant fodder in the news because their behaviour is both perplexing and sometimes deadly to themselves. Antoon Leenaars, a Windsor-based psychologist and suicide researcher who is the former president of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention. Most suicides are found in two major diagnoses: depression and BPD, says Dr. PLEASE educate yourself before you judge me :)” Richards posted on Instagram a month before her death.Įven though BPD affects only one to two per cent of the population, between five and 10 per cent of people who have the illness die by suicide. “Going to lose my mind, not because I have BPD, but because of all the stigma attached to it. On at least two occasions, she needed stitches. She swallowed pills and cut herself so often that she started to wear long sleeves all the time in her late teens. She had bulimia as a teen and attempted to take her own life many times. Richards was 26 years old when she died and had been struggling with mental health issues since high school, say her friends and family. Simon Hatcher, a researcher at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. About half of these report having suicidal thoughts, says Dr. Photo by Tony Caldwell / POSTMEDIAĪbout 6,000 people go the emergency rooms of the General and Civic campuses of The Ottawa Hospital every year seeking help for a mental health crisis. Jennifer Richards and her son Simon pose with a photo of Lauren Richards in Ottawa Wednesday March 27, 2019. It is a public health conundrum that has never been solved. Suicide is ranked as the ninth leading cause of death in Canada, but the second leading cause of death, after accidents, for young people between the ages of 15 and 34. Article contentīased on data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, 14.7 per cent of Canadians have thought about suicide and 3.5 per cent have attempted suicide in their lifetime. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
0 kommentar(er)
