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Climbing at The Gap, Sydney, is-definitely-not-on

widewetandslippery

19-Oct-2015
4:47:56 PM

"Oops, fixed" rather insensitive for a suicide thread RodW;)

ldshield

19-Oct-2015
4:59:12 PM

My understanding is that you *don't* shift the problem by creating barriers. For example, when we banned semi-automatic weapons in the mid-1990s, those opposing the laws said that people just would find different methods. In fact what happened was that the overall suicide rate dropped because people didn't do that. Likewise, the erection of high barriers on Melbourne's West Gate Bridge has *not* led to an increase in people jumping off other bridges. This is in contrast to some other forms of behaviour society seeks to minimise (for example, drag-racers or drug dealers), who seek out alternative locations when there's extra attention on one area.

martym

19-Oct-2015
5:15:50 PM

"66% of GPs have said that waiting times for psychological therapy are the biggest barrier to treatment of people with common mental health problems such as anxiety"


rodw

19-Oct-2015
6:45:27 PM

On 19/10/2015 ldshield wrote:
> Likewise, the erection of high barriers on Melbourne's
>West Gate Bridge has *not* led to an increase in people jumping off other
>bridges.

but if suicides rates are up they are just finding alternatives.....I think claiming 100 success rate in hot spot areas is used by pollies etc to mask the underlying issue of lack of funding for prevention as a whole and support services.

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