When Passion Takes Control

But what we do know is that throughout the world, it's frequently misclassification of women, which makes it look like women are dying or hurting themselves much less than men.

I don't know that that's true here, but I would suspect it is.

So the example I can give you is India and China, where most of the world's population live, and it's about 50-50.

We do know that men attempt suicide much more than girls.

I mean, women attempt much more than boys.

Boys are more successful because of the lethal means that they use.

But the answer for Mongolia, why the young men are killing themselves, I think it's probably not so different from why the young girls are killing themselves.

There's tremendous pressure.

There's bullying.

There's expectations that may not be realistic.

There's family violence.

Substance use is a major problem in Mongolia.

Families that have substance abuse, those children, those family members are at risk for suicide.

Family violence, family members are at risk for suicide.

So there are lots of sociocultural reasons why people are more likely to be at risk for suicide.

And those things need to be studied and addressed.

And one of the ways to do that is to gather very good data.

And we talked about that in the conference on Monday, and I talked to the Minister of Health about it this morning.

Mongolia is very fortunate that you have what's called a REDCap system.

It's a platform for collecting very good data.

And there are, in fact, REDCap servers here in Mongolia.

There are five or six of them.

But they're not currently being utilized for the country.

They're being utilized for specific programs.

They need to be brought together, and they need to be utilized for understanding the data throughout the country in Ulaanbaatar so that programs can be targeted better.