{"id":5966,"date":"2019-10-16T09:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"state-on-the-spot-over-mental-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/16\/state-on-the-spot-over-mental-health-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"State On The Spot Over Mental Health Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concern is\ngrowing over the startling spike in suicides, especially among teens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few\nweeks before a 14-year-old girl killed herself in Bomet County, the&nbsp;<em>Nation&nbsp;<\/em>team\nhad accompanied a counsellor to her aunt\u2019s home in Kikuyu, Kiambu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had\nbeen invited to talk to her 13-year-old niece, who her parents said was \u201cacting\nweird\u201d \u2014 cutting everyone off, locking herself in her room and even failing to\nshower and eat for days. The teen was suicidal and could be struggling with a\nmental illness, the counsellor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suicide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A World\nHealth Organisation (WHO) report says most people who contemplate suicide could\nbe suffering from mental health problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncounsellor decided it was in the teenager\u2019s best interest to take her for more\ncounselling and medical attention if the need arose. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/State-on-spot-over-mental-health-crisis\/1056-5312736-jsuq90\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Concern is growing over the startling spike in suicides, especially among teens. A few weeks before a 14-year-old girl killed herself in Bomet County, the&nbsp;Nation&nbsp;team had accompanied&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}