A mental health evaluation app by the Department of Mental Health, and collaborators, has been developed to identify the early signs of depression. The app can...
There are 260,000 prisoners across 143 jails in Thailand, and around 5,000 convicts are dealing with mental health problems. Psychologists have revealed reports of anxiety and...
The Thailand Policy Lab received over 100,000 messages from teenagers online many suffering from mental health problems. After evaluating data from the messages, the most often...
A delivery worker who worked for Lalamove, 31 year old Wicharn Pimthikor, jumped from Bhumibol I Bridge on Wednesday afternoon. He had parked his motorcycle on...
Suicide rates among Thai teenagers and young adults in Thailand have increased ‘alarmingly’ over the past five years, according to Thailand’s Department of Mental Health. The...
The Thaiger acknowledges that the names of the family and the contents of a suicide note were published in error in an earlier version of this...
Job losses, bankruptcies, sickness and fear are just a few of the side-affects felt by the Covid-19 pandemic. For many in Thailand and all over the...
A suicide prevention team is being created to help those in despair, says Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, who will chair the committee. The ministries of Social...
Thailand's police and health workers continue to work with online influencers such as Drama Addict, Mam Po Dum and More Lab Panda, to help identify, and...
The Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is urging emergency services and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in the Pak Chong district of Nakhon Ratchasima, in Thailand's...
Another Thaiger video on Thaiger TV. Please subscribe. https://youtu.be/S2RhogyiGuY Before Covid, around the world every 40 seconds someone lost their life to suicide and nearly...
A 74 year old man who climbed to the top of a high voltage power pole in Pattaya has been rescued by the local fire department....
The remnants of Tropical Storm Noul are now situated over Central Thailand after passing over Vietnam's central coast yesterday morning and then into Laos and north...
An apparent rise in Thailand's suicide rate, related to the country's current business conditions, restrictions and ongoing world pandemic, is concerning health officials. The data was...
Suicides are on the rise in Thailand and some say stress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic contributed to the spike in self inflicted deaths. To...
OPINION 9 months since the first outbreak in China, international borders remain mostly sealed. Most travellers, excepting certain categories, are prevented from leaving or entering in...
OPINION The sun will rise. All this utter disruption to our lives will come to an end at some time. But the hangover will linger a...
Can time spent on social media - YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc - affect the mental health of youth? Yes, says a report by Johns Hopkins...
The Thai Department of Mental Health has released disturbing research showing the shockingly high rate of attempted suicides and pointing out the need for better education...
