The case in summary: Mental Health Youth notified the police a total of 64 times this year – an increase of 73 per cent. Silje Christine Austveg knows great responsibility for those who need help. Psychologist Vidar Kristiansen believes there are several reasons for the increase in notification cases. Suicide is a theme three times more often than loneliness. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. Silje Christine Austveg has many different conversations during a shift on the help chat for Mental Health Youth (MHU). Someone has had their first kiss, while others say they don’t want to live anymore. That’s how big the differences are. A chat conversation can last a long time before Austveg considers that there is a danger to the life or health of the anonymous person she is talking to. – First of all, I try to get the person to contact an ambulance or emergency room themselves to get help. Even if the person entering the chat does not want to, the volunteer at the help chat has a duty to contact the police. Then there is usually an acute risk of suicide. – I remember several notification cases. They are the ones who saw traces and stick by you, says Austveg. Silje Christine Austveg is operations manager for the help chat for Mental Health Youth. Photo: Silje Christine Austveg Doesn’t get to know how things are going After Austveg has notified her, she doesn’t get to know more about what the police are doing or how things are going with the person. So far this year, Mental Health Youth has notified the police a total of 64 times. At the same time last year, they notified 37 times. This is an increase of 73 percent. Need someone to talk to? If you need to talk to someone, you can contact these: Mental Health Helpline: Call 116 123 or write to sidetmedord.no. Kirkens SOS: Kirkens SOS is the country’s largest 24-hour crisis service on the phone and internet. Call 22 40 00 40 or chat with someone on the website. The VO line: A helpline for those who experience violence or abuse in close relationships. Call 116 006 or chat with someone on the website. The helpline for sexually abused people: 800 57 000 Cross on the neck is the Red Cross’s service for you under the age of 18. Telephone: 800 333 21. Write or chat on the website. The alarm phone for children and young people: A free phone for children and young people who are exposed to violence, abuse and neglect. Telephone 116 111. Acute risk of suicide? Call 113 when it is urgent and your life is at stake. Call the emergency room on tel. 116117 for emergency assistance. You can also talk to your GP. Several notices increase Mental Health Youth is not alone in answering questions about suicide. Nor are they alone in the negative development in the talks. Lasse Heimdal, secretary general of Church SOS, write to news; – We have a marked increase in the level of seriousness in the conversations. It worries us. Most of the people who send messages to the Church’s SOS chat are young people between the ages of 20 and 29. Themes that come up are suicide, mental health challenges, relationship problems, self-harm and loneliness. Suicide is a theme three times more often than loneliness. news has been in contact with Sør-aust and the Oslo police district. They say it is difficult to comment on the increase in notification cases. – The police receive inquiries from various helplines and will consider operational measures in each individual case. This is what Henning Reif Fosaas, manager of the operations center section, wrote in an email to news. Increase in mental health problems Psychologist Vidar Kristiansen believes that there are several reasons why there has been a large increase in whistleblowing cases. – Immediately, I think that an explanation could be an increase in mental health problems for young people. It is important to investigate what lies behind the talk, says Kristiansen. Psychologist Vidar Kristiansen Photo: Ina Therese Vistung Knutsen He also points out that the help chat is growing. Therefore, more people use the offer. – We also know that the times we are in now, with everything from war to economic unrest, have something to say for young people’s experience of security and mental health, says Kristiansen. Lack of other offers Silje Christine Austveg, who answers questions in the help chat, sees that many people lack an offer in the health service. – Many people feel that they do not get help from the healthcare system. Especially in summer, where, for example, the Child and Youth Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic (BUP) and the District Psychiatric Center (DPS) are closed. Then they are left without the help that might keep them going for the rest of the year. Psychologist Vidar Kristiansen says that those who come through the needle eye at BUP and DPS are the sickest. – That is why helplines and chat services are perhaps more important than ever, he says.
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