9 September 2025, Cairo, Egypt– Every year, on 10 September, World Self-destruction Prevention Day (WSPD)– organized by the International Organization for Suicide Avoidance (IASP) and co-sponsored by WHO– concentrates international focus on suicide avoidance, joining communities, organizations and governments with the shared idea that self-destructive behavior is a significant public wellness trouble, one that have to be addressed with raising awareness and advertising open discussion on this forbidden subject.
Transforming the Story on Self-destruction, the triennial style for WSPD 2024– 2026, intends to do simply that, to influence individuals, areas, organizations and federal governments to participate in open and honest discussion regarding self-destruction and self-destructive behaviour.
Greater than 720 000 individuals die from self-destruction yearly. In 2021, suicide was the third leading reason of fatality among 15– 29 -year-olds, with 73 % of self-destructions taking place in reduced- and middle-income countries. Considering that 2019, self-destruction prices in the Eastern Mediterranean Area have decreased by 17 %.
For each self-destruction, there are an estimated 20 suicide efforts. Each life shed has extensive social, emotional and financial consequences, deeply impacting households, buddies, work environments and communities. The stigma surrounding self-destruction commonly prevents individuals from looking for aid in a prompt fashion on one hand and preventing the development of evidence-based health and wellness and social treatment policies and solutions on the other.
Self-destructive practices is influenced by a complicated interplay of social, cultural, financial, biological, mental and environmental elements. Psychological health conditions, experiencing problem, disaster, loss, discrimination, physical violence, misuse, partnership problems, persistent discomfort and health problem and seclusion are strongly related to self-destructive habits.
An efficient national self-destruction avoidance approach for that reason requires the full dedication of the government and support of culture, assisted by an evidence-based technique.
LIVE LIFE , that’s campaign for self-destruction avoidance, suggests effective evidence-based treatments, including:
limiting accessibility to the methods of suicide (pesticides, guns, particular medicines);
liable media coverage of suicide;
cultivating socio-emotional life skills in teenagers; and
early identification, analysis and follow-up of anybody influenced by self-destructive behavior.
To succeed, these treatments should be supported by situation analysis, multisectoral cooperation, recognition raising, capacity-building, financing, security and monitoring and assessment.
The immediate requirement to act to prevent self-destruction is increasingly being acknowledged and focused on at the highest levels. Altering the story on self-destruction can assist by producing risk-free areas to honestly speak about promo and protection of psychological health and focusing on self-destruction prevention as a public health and wellness problem.
Relevant information and sources:
Alcohol, medications and addicting practices
Information: Self-destruction prices (per 100 000 populace)
LIVE LIFE campaign for self-destruction avoidance
Psychological health and wellness
Mental wellness and mental assistance (sources)
mhGAP Treatment Guide (mhGAP-IG) Variation 2.0
Cops, firefighters and other initial line -responders
Stopping suicide: a resource for media experts
Reinforcing self-destruction prevention in the Region: WHO introduces media monitoring device
Self-destruction worldwide in 2021: worldwide health price quotes