Evictions and suicides are now phenomena of high convergence and frequency, unfortunately this is common news in newspapers and television shows.
In this scenario, we can ask ourselves several questions: why do evictions not stop if we know their consequences?
- Suicide was a taboo issue in the media until recently.
- The fear of contagion made it not mentioned.
- However.
- There is now a debate about this position.
- So society begins to see the tip of the iceberg.
The fact that an eviction leads someone to end their life, understood as the most precious thing we have, is worrying, of great interest to psychologists, who want to understand how the mind works and what decisions it makes in complicated situations. situations.
Isn’t there other outings?In this article we’ll see why evictions and suicides are associated and have started happening more often.
Is he the free person when he decides to end his life or is he a victim of circumstance?If you’re on the edge of an abyss surrounded by twenty people who decide to push you, you’ll eventually fall. In this case no one will talk about suicide, because your intention was not to fall, they pushed you Can we assimilate the people who are pushing for deportation?
When a person is forced to leave their home, there are a number of variables that can cause some people to want to stop everything, and when they get to this point, other questions may arise: why are some yes and others not?some end their lives and some don’t?
Since not all deportees choose the same result, a new question arises: are there personality traits that are incompatible or protect against suicide?
Each expulsion involves a number of different circumstances, including the age of deportees, having children or not, financial resources, the possibility of staying at a family member or friend’s house, social and family support, etc.
All these and other factors must be taken into account when leaving a home, it is not the same to be welcomed by a family member than not to have a home, nor is it the same to live alone and be greeted by a friend and have a family with children and not have the opportunity of a place to house them.
“Our greatest glory is not to fail, but to rise after every fall. “Confucius.
Julia Bolvar’s team (2016) has published an interesting article, a study on the mental health of adults affected by a deportation process, whose main findings are that people affected by evictions are 13 times more likely to be in poor health.
In the survey, 57. 3% of men and 80. 9% of women reported not being healthy, and were also identified as more likely to develop cardiovascular problems.
Another finding of the Bolvar team was that exposure to evictions in the neighborhood itself can increase the blood pressure of neighbors, in terms of the process of losing a home and its relationship to health, there is influence of individual factors and the environment.
Individually, the stress of the deportation experience rises from its initial stages, also affecting physical and mental health.
Teresa Galeote (2018) states that “among those most vulnerable to frustration, unemployment can be one of the main risk factors for suicide. “
Enrique Echebura (2015) says that a melancholy mood can be very harmful, because depression is opposed to the natural desire to live, so between 15% and 20% of people suffering from depression can try to end their lives.
Echebura also notes that substance abuse disorders, such as substance abuse and alcoholism, are risk factors for suicide, at this stage we can consider different elements and observe that a person in deportation may be a candidate to develop depression.
Depending on each person’s coping styles, depression may or may not occur. The same applies to the decision to use drugs or alcohol to withstand the emotional pain caused by deportation.
So, because all of these factors are suicide risk factors, we see several reasons why some people end their lives.
“Where one door closes, another opens” – Miguel de Cervantes-
Based on the research presented, it is possible to demonstrate that certain adverse circumstances sustained over time can cause depression. A deportation situation would have such a negative impact on physical and mental health that it could lead to depressive states.
This could also trigger different types of addiction as a way to deal with the situation. Each individual’s coping resources are different. However, the high number of suicides today makes us think that evictions cause greater unrest and despair among those who suffer from them than they seem.
The issue of expulsions and suicides is, of course, very complex; Despite this, we can also see that not everyone chooses this path, this gives us a ray of hope, because it indicates that suicide is not the only way out.
When a situation becomes unbearable, many people choose to fight and figure out how they can win.