Depressed over skin color, Noida schoolboy jumps to death from 15th floor flat
A category 11 pupil, who was allegedly battling despair due to his bodily seems and skin complexion, jumped off his 15th-floor condo and died on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, police stated. The native Sector 49 police station was alerted round 5 am in regards to the incident, which came about in a high-rise constructing in Sector 78, in accordance to officers.
The mother and father of the 17-year-old boy have been residing individually. His mom lives in Gurgaon, whereas father, who works in a multinational firm (MNC), was staying right here in Noida, they stated.
“His parents informed the police that their son had been battling depression due to his physical features and skin complexion. He had talked to them about his complexity because of his looks in the past also,” Sector 49 Station House Officer (SHO) Sudhir Kumar informed PTI.
The physique was despatched for submit mortem after the incident and no grievance has been made by the household, the SHO stated.
Meanwhile, psychological well being specialists stated despair is treatable and suicide preventive.
“Teenagers and people in their early 20s could suffer from ‘body dysmorphic disorder’, a mental health condition in which one cannot stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or flaws in their appearance,” Dr Kunal Kumar, Head of Department Psychiatry in Sharda University and Medical College, stated.
“Such health conditions are very much treatable and preventable if first observers, like parents, recognise the behavioural changes in their kids and talk to them in order to not let the kids doubt their self-esteem,” he stated.
