As an Australian or Dutch citizen, you have around a 35% chance of getting depression in your lifetime.

According to the 2021 census, 8.8% of people had depression. Seventy-five percent of suicides are male, and the most common causes are stress, trauma, and mental illness. 0.00086% of Adelaide’s homed/not homeless population commits suicide every day. This translates to 6.45 males committing suicide every day, and 2.15 females committing suicide per day. This is a very minor decrease from 2021’s 9 suicides per day.

The issue is that it costs around $100 per hour for a professional therapist, and the only other option is to call on your phone or check a chat website, neither of which you would be considering if you can afford therapy or are at the edge of a cliff, building roof or bleeding out from your wrists. If you can afford a phone, laptop or some other device and internet/can get to internet, then the chances that you can also afford professional help are decent. But that doesn’t help the homeless, who have a 4.9 times higher suicide rate. The ratio of homeless suicide to non-homeless suicide is (non-homeless: homeless) 1:4.9. which means that for every time that you see someone commit suicide in their home, five homeless have done the same.

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What can the government change?

Pay the fees. Just pay the fees for people who are unable to do it themselves. After they don’t have to pay something they can’t, the suicidal population will most likely start to decrease to a ratio closer to (not suicide deaths to suicide deaths) 1:1, instead of 1:8. Yes, the government may end up paying for people who aren’t actually suicidal, but consider this, would you rather pay for 9 suicidal peoples treatment and 1 liar, or let those 9 people die.

Thank you for your time, and do not kill yourself.