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Security Force (Central)

24th January 2020 14:58:15 Hours

TROOPS WERE LECTURED ON CAUSES OF COMMITTING SUICIDE

A lecture has been conducted on the causes of committing suicide by the Directorate of Army Preventive Medicine and Mental Health Service on 22 January 2020 at the Torch Cinema Hall of Sri Lanka Military Academy, Diyatalawa. This timely lecture was conducted with the instructions of the Commander of the Army and the supervision of the Commander Security Forces (Central), Major General G J L Waduge RWP RSP VSV USP ndu. At this lecture, Major U P Mallawaarachchi RWP RSP along with four other Psychological Counselors from Directorate of Army Preventive Medicine and Mental Health Service educated the military personnel of Security Forces (Central) and its under command formations on this subject

The intention of this lecture was to make aware the Military Personnel on depression which transforms the soldiers even to commit suicide at occasions they cannot understand the real situation which they are in. Further, the lecturers emphasized that these soldiers tend to select the committing suicide as the best option for certain unbearable circumstances and this decision is totally based on disappointment and the depression. It was made aware that avoiding such circumstances, understanding of the problem and face it confidently would be the solutions for these.