First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.

“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”

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    two thirds are still two thirds - whether that’s 3 people out of 4 or 750.000 out of 1.000.000. And given that

    A survey published in the journal BMC Psychiatry two months before the Taliban takeover found nearly half the population suffered from psychological distress.

    I think the numbers are really worrying.

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      Especially if you consider that in the rest of the world the majority of successful suicides are from males. It takes a lot of disparity to bring it to those numbers.

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      Not to be callus, but if 3 people commit suicide it isn’t news. Or at least, its not international news.

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        Dude, they’re saying it’s worrying if 3 out of every 4 people who commit suicide are women

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          Without the total number, it could literally be 3 people for all I know. Not that I don’t feel for the women in this situation.

          In another reply someone quoted a better article that said ~100 suicide attempts. That’s all I was asking for