A sociologist has suggested that recent suicides are an indication that Barbadians are losing hope in their search for solutions to their problems.Dr Veronica Evelyn told Barbados TODAY it was evident that many people were struggling to cope with the impacts of not only the COVID-19 pandemic but the rising cost of living and other personal challenges, and felt trapped with nowhere to go or no one to turn to.“When [a] person gets to a point where they look inside themselves, there is nowhere to go, there is despair, and where there is that loss of hope, where persons cannot see a way out, the first thing that comes to mind is ‘well get out of this life’ because for them that is the only way out,” she said.“Get out of this life, get out of this bad situation, and so that’s why I think that some persons commit suicide.”
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