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Renowned Tv news anchor Priya Juneja committed suicide at her home. She was living at shahdra. “she was upset with her job, she wanted to work with some good news channel, but due to lockdown and cost-cutting at many news channels she failed to secure a satisfactory job”, said her sister preeti juneja.
As per reports priya juneja switched to a different channel after she resigned from a previous channel with some dispute with channel management. After resigning she was working with a Haryana youtube channel.
Priya juneja friends told that they never imagined that person like Priya will take these kinds of steps, they are still in a state of shock. Social media is flooded with question’s that why Priya Juneja took her life at this early age, After all, She was just 25.
The number of people contemplating suicide and doing self-harm has risen, an online survey revealed. The Suicide Prevention India Foundation (SPIF) conducted the study, in May, where they interviewed 159 mental health professionals from across the country. The report also made recommendations for those experiencing mental distress, others around them, and therapists.
The “new normal” that the pandemic has forced people to adapt to have aggravated the deteriorating mental health conditions in the country. The lockdowns have not gone well for the mental health condition of people in India, which already records the highest number of suicides globally. Shivarama Varambally, additional professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), who was not involved in the study, said, “ideas of suicide have definitely gone up among the disadvantaged sections of the society.”
“The lockdown has increased the already prevalent risks related to mental illness, financial insecurity, and work stress, and has added new ones like loss of control, depletion of social networks, job uncertainty, abuse, and social isolation,”