Through Jean-Marc Aubert
Published on 9 Dec 20 at 8:41
updated on 9 Dec 20 at 9:26
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Drama this Tuesday night at Teyran, about fifteen kilometers east of Montpellier : at 9:30 p.m., a 13 year old girl was discovered hanging from a tree, on a property in a subdivision on the Vendargues road, not far from the town center.
While the emergency services were alerted, witnesses managed to unhook the girl from the ropes, to transfer her to a house to provide the first emergency measures.
Long resuscitation
Sdis 34 firefighters came from the Assas barracks and a team from Smur-Samu dispatched from the Montpellier University Hospital, quickly on site, took over. But, at the end of an attempt at resuscitation, including cardiac massages, the teenager died at 10:30 p.m..
The gendarmes of the Castelnau-le-Lez company were there during the night. They opened an investigation to try to explain the reasons for this terrible fatal gesture of a child so young. Suicide is withheld.
The family is inconsolable and the district of the road to Vendargues is in a state of shock.
Worrisome figures
The 17-year-old adolescents were interviewed as part of the Escapad survey, Health and consumption survey during the defense preparation call of the French Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction, the OFDT.
It emerges that in 2017, nearly 3% of adolescents declared having made a suicide attempt during their life requiring hospitalization.
The situation of girls aged 15 to 17 is of particular concern with an increase in suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts since 2011. Again, depression is the most strongly associated variable. Other variables are also associated with suicidal behavior, such as dropping out of school and the consumption of psychoactive substances, alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs.
According to statistics from last year, children make suicide attempts as young as 10 years old. In Occitania:
● 6,876 emergency room visits for attempted suicide from the age of 10 in 66 emergency facilities in Occitanie, ie 19 per day or 4 suicide attempts per 1,000 visits.
● Few differences with all-cause passages concerning the distribution by day of the week or the month of the year, but a clear difference concerning the hours of treatment for suicidal persons, rather in the evening and at the start of the night: 8 p.m. – 4 a.m. . Half of the dead were by hanging.
A preventive device
● Vigilan’s has been deployed in Occitania for 3 years and is becoming more and more integrated into the everyday practice of mental health professionals. They are 2,400 people, aged 15 to 98, to have benefited from the preventive system to date.
● A training comprising three modules (sentinel, assessor, crisis intervention), with the aim of creating a real chain of prevention, is designed as a strategic device allowing the coordination of the various social and associative partners with the healthcare offer.
● A support system for people bereaved by the suicide of a loved one is put in place in order to prevent a state of depression, or even suicidal thoughts or intentions.
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