The Psychologist Saving Muslim Teens from Suic!de

Look, I, I would not say it's something new, right? Like, it's not something that has just, like, surprisingly and shockingly just turned up.

Obviously, the deaths of young people in our community is devastating.

Like, it's never easy to lose someone to suicide-

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... and my heart goes out to the families that are impacted by it, the community that's impacted by it, the friends that are impacted by it.

And it's not, I think, uh, a really nice space to be in.

Like, you know, you've lost someone close to you, someone that's meaning-- like, means a lot to you to suicide, and I think the people around them are also impacted.

Their, the colleagues at school or even outside of school, they're impacted.

But I also wanna remind people that this is not a new phenomena.

Like, this is not something that has just happened overnight suddenly, and it's like a new sort of event that's gonna keep unfolding and just on its own, and it's always been there.

It's always existed in the past.

You know, when you look at the statistics around suicide in Australia, it's the leading cause of death for young people-

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... between age of 14 to 25, and then 25 to 44.

25 to 44, let's just-- well, that's quite a big margin-

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... as well.

That's, you know, from when you've just, I guess, probably graduated to working some of a full-time job.

That's a very big gap.

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It is a big gap-

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but I think it really highlights...

And you can go back, and you, everyone can go online, look up the Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing, and you can see the stats.