Unrealistic expectationsa main trigger in triggering suicidal tendencies in younger technology: specialists

Experts in Kolkata mentioned that unrealistic expectations are a serious trigger behind triggering suicidal tendencies within the younger technology. Over 7.6% of suicides amongst Indians is amongst college students and unemployed youth in response to the 2022 National Crime Records Bureau knowledge. September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. 

Among the very best suicide charges in India, West Bengal has all the time been within the prime 5 States for the previous few years. The State accounted for 12,669 suicide deaths in 2022 alone.

IIT Kharagpur alone noticed a number of deaths by suicide up to now one yr. Peers of the deceased have complained that lots of the deaths have been associated to educational stress and unrealistic excessive requirements anticipated from college students and a battle to maintain up with it. By May 2025, IIT Kharagpur alone noticed three pupil suicide deaths of their institute from the beginning of the yr. 

“If a pupil fails to fulfill these requirements, we deal with that as a person problem that the scholar couldn’t deal with the system. But we by no means query the training system which units such not possible requirements within the first place,” senior psychiatrist Ranjita Biswas advised The Hindu. She added that the aspiration in the direction of a profitable life has turn into about inflated salaries, costly items, excellent grades, and standing, however many don’t have the socio-economic sources to attain this which forces them into despair and different psychological well being points. 

Dr Biswas added that the failing socio-economic system, dangerous environmental circumstances, and political points additionally add to the difficulty provided that many individuals don’t have a supportive ecosystem to fall again on throughout a disaster. 

Last month in August, an autistic PhD scholar on the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, West Bengal wrote a notice on Facebook about his expertise with bullying and exclusion from each training and household and ended his life.

“With nuclear households, busy dad and mom, and fewer siblings, many younger individuals are rising up with restricted emotional assist and fragile attachment patterns. This, coupled with the pressures of recent life and the uncertainties of the post-pandemic world, has made the disaster very actual. Young individuals right this moment are usually not transferring away from in search of assist in individual, however what we’re seeing is an amazing affect of digital and social media on their lives. The concern is just not their willingness to hunt assist, however the way in which social media typically directs their coping mechanisms in unhealthy or unsafe instructions,” Deboshila Bose, Counselling Psychologist, Fortis Hospital, Anandapur mentioned.

She additionally mentioned that the younger generations’ fixed strain they really feel to show their complete life on social media, together with suicide notes, is a rising concern amongst psychological well being specialists.

Even although individuals have hundreds of pals and listeners on social media platforms, the loneliness epidemic amongst younger individuals is extreme, therefore in search of assist additionally turns into a rising disaster. 

Child in Need Institute (CINI), an NGO which runs a psychological well being helpline quantity referred to as Teenline mentioned they get a minimum of 350-400 misery calls from younger individuals each month, amongst them 10% are for suicide prevention. Swantana Adhikari a senior program supervisor at CINI, added that failing to match their actuality with their excessive aspirations has been a serious reason for misery. 

“The influencer tradition has been a severe problem. Young minds fail to know that the lavish lives and issues they see their favorite influencers flaunt on social media is just not actual and are solely paid promotions. They aspire to attain that way of life when their sources can not maintain that way of life,” Ms Adhikari added. She additionally mentioned that self-harm points as a consequence of a way of failure stemming from the failure to attain these unrealistic targets has been a rising concern. Relationship issues, educational stress, and household battle, additionally add to the disaster. 

(People in misery or having suicidal ideas can search counselling by calling the suicide prevention helpline quantity: DISHA – 0471-2552056, 1056)