You know that hollow, knotty feeling the night before a big test, the books are open, but the mind won’t settle, sleep deserts you, and every thought turns into “what if I fail?”
For many Indian students, that feeling isn’t occasional, it’s the norm during exam season. The pressure to perform can lead to anxiety, panic, poor health, and in tragic cases, self-harm or suicide.
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The data underscores that this is not just stress, it is a mental health crisis.
The number of student suicides in India has surged to a record high of 13,892 in 2023, according to the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Monday.
This marks a 6.5 percent increase from 13,044 student suicides in 2022, 6.1 percent from 13,089 in 2021, and 10.8 percent from 12,526 in 2020.
While overall suicides in India rose by 23.2 percent in 2023 to 1,71,418, up from 1,3
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