Suicide rate for young women highest for 20 years as experts warn of mental health crisis [GB]
Olivia Rudgard, social affairs correspondent
7 SEPTEMBER 2017 • 8:00PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/07/suicide-rate-young-women-highest-20-years-experts-warn-mental/Suicide among women in their early twenties is at its highest level in two decades, ONS figures show, as experts warn of a mental health crisis among young women who struggle with the pressures of modern life and social media.
While the overall figures for Great Britain show rates are at a seven-year low, women aged between 20 and 24 are increasingly likely to die by suicide.
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"We know that particularly for young women their rate of poor mental health is three times that of their male contemporaries.
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In recent years suicide prevention campaigns have focused on men, who still have a much higher rate than women in all age groups and are more than three times more likely to die by suicide than women. The most at-risk group is men in their early 40s, among whom the rate is 23.7.
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In England the overall rate fell from 10.1 to 9.5. "You'd have to go back more than three decades to find a drop as big as that in one year," he said.
However, he said that it was important to "keep an eye" on the figures for young people.
"There is a worry that we have a generation of young people who respond with self-harming behaviour to the stresses that they face," he said.
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