Triggering (Suicide): LGBT Targeted in National Suicide Prevention Strategy

[better-than-ecstasy]

The title basically says it all. Teens part of the LGBT community are said to more likely attempt or commit suicide due to bullying, or people just being prejudice. Here is the link to the full story and I guess ways to prevent LGBT suicide: http://news.yahoo.com/lgbt-suicide-targeted-national-suicide-prevention-strategy-213754626.html?_esi=1

Honestly I think it is great that people are trying to prevent suicide, but why wait until now to realize that LGBT people tend to commit suicide as well as any others? I don't think suicides should just be more focused on the LGBT community, but its nice that people want to prevent others from taking their own lives.

[Kate*]

The issue I have with it is that everyone seems to try to prevent suicide in one group at a time, now it's LGBT which probably has something to do with the perceived rise in LGBT suicides and the increased acceptance of LGBT in general. I don't think it means that it's just now being realized I think that it seems to be the most pressing right now so that's where the focus is.

The same could be said for suicides in the military, it's not that they didn't occur before, but since we've been in a war, the incidence has increased so it's focused on more. I think tailoring prevention to certain groups is really the only way to do it because suicide could, in theory, affect everyone.

Right now they're looking at LGBT and military, before it was teenagers and college students, and at some point it was, or will be the elderly. I don't think anyone is focusing on one group and excluding the others, but I think the focus is just shifting because otherwise certain populations would be overlooked.

[Mitch]

Well you can't focus attention to every individual group or sub-culture that commits suicide, the best approach is to break it down into smaller pieces.