Growing depression: Psychology behind farmer suicides
NDTV Correspondent
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 (Vidharba):
As steps are taken to fight a spate of farmer suicides in Vidharba, the psychology behind the move is last thing on anyone's mind.
Psychiatrist Sujay Patil, the son of a farmer tries to get people in Chandur Village to recognise symptoms of clinical depression.
"A farmer drowns in sorrow and begins to feel suicidal. He feels his life has no meaning. He feels trapped. He can neither buy books for his children nor clothes for his wife. He sees no hope and gets into acute depression," Patil said.
It is likely that one of the flaws in the official logic of checking farmer suicides is to only focus on the farmers' part of it by announcing scheme after scheme.
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