INTERVIEW. What’s the matter with our young women? Suicide rates up 20 percent

The number of suicides will fall by 7.1 percent in 2021 compared to the previous year. That’s the good news. Young women in our country appear to be doing much less well: their suicide rates rose by 20 percent. Why the sudden increase? Director of the Flemish Expertise Center for Suicide Prevention Gwendolyn Portzky explains.

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