– Is it about the chase for money and status?
727 people took their own lives in 2024. This figure is the highest registered in Norway. Back is often a life partner, children, family and friends with many questions.
Different reasons
Causes can be many. Serious illness, the economy is under pressure, breakup, sexual orientation, abuse, bullying, dependence on drugs and pressure to perform in school and work.
My deceased father born before World War II had a slightly different mindset. Of course, there were those who struggled with mental illness and suffering even after the war. Trauma and experiences, which were burnt in memory. Someone asked my father. Don’t you go to the South?
Chased by status
He had his south here, he said. Go on the sea and fishing. Pick berries and enjoy wonderful Finnmark in woods and fields. He had a life, which many had in the years after the war. He seemed happy with the life he had, even though illness was to bother him in the end.
I have been thinking, is it looking for more money, the status that makes more people choose to end their lives?
For some, it is not so easy to talk about, for example, finances, sexual orientation, bullying and abuse. Many people suffer quietly and live their lives without anyone knowing that you are just struggling with this.
We focus on World Day for those with bipolar disorder, Asperger Day and so on. We focus on suicide figures every year. What should we do to limit the number? Less queue in psychologists and psychiatrists; There, those responsible who sit on the money must open up more.
Economy
If you are admitted to a somatic hospital, you will not be drawn by a disability benefit. After 3 months. Or you have a different performance from NAV. If you are admitted to a psychiatric hospital, you are deducted 86%. The same as someone in prison. Will a psychiatric patient become healthier by bills going to debt collection, the apartment or house being put up for sale? How much does a mentally ill patient manage to follow this up?
How this works in 2025? Will a social worker do the job of following up all patients? When we see directors who cut brutally with large savings.
Sad development
We can often read and hear about psychiatric patients who print out of treatment ahead of time, even if they have not been treated. This is partly because of the financial situations they have come up with. And this is sad.
Then it can be an important straw that there is a psychiatric service in the municipality and a GP that follows up.
We hear about the GP who is under pressure in his work day, and about the specialist doctor who is not listened to. The GP, specialist physician and other health professionals have become part of the statistics.
I believe that there is high time with a new escalation in psychiatry. That the money bag opens and that the unfair feature of benefits for patients at a psychiatric hospital will end.
