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Home / Health Conditions / Mental Health / Rapper Lil Wayne Discusses Suicide Attempt: “I Pulled the Trigger”

Rapper Lil Wayne Discusses Suicide Attempt: “I Pulled the Trigger”

in shock so he didn’t feel the pain and recalled waking up to the police knocking on the door. He managed to make his way to the door and knocked back by kicking it.

He said “thank God I’m still here for a reason.”

Lil’ Wayne is not alone in his suicidal thoughts. Thank God he didn’t go through with it like this growing list of suicide deaths from notable young African Americans recently including:

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  • Mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland Kevin Ward, 44
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  • Walking Dead Star Moses Moseley, 31
  • Ian Alexander, Jr., 26, son of Regina King

Studies show that between 2014 and 2019, the suicide rate increased by 30% for Black individuals (from 5.7 to 7.4 per 100 000 individuals) and 16% for Asian or Pacific Islander individuals (from 6.1 to 7.1 per 100 000 individuals).

For more than a decade, suicide rates have been increasing in Black children and adolescents, and a new study says the sharpest rise occurred among young girls.

The study, published in September 2021 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, found that just over 1,800 Black children died by suicide between 2003 and 2017, and while most of the deaths were among boys, especially those ages 15 to 17, the gender gap is narrowing. The suicide rate of the girls increased an average of 6.6 percent each year — more than twice the increase for boys, the study said. Nearly 40 percent of the girls were 12 to 14 years old, indicating that this age group may need additional attention or different types of interventions.

Another study, also published this year, said that over the last two decades, the biggest increase in self-reported suicide attempts was among Black adolescents. And in 2018 Dr. Arielle H. Sheftall, the lead author of the study, and other researchers revealed that Black children under 13 are dying by suicide at nearly twice the rate of white children the same age.

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Why is this happening? There are no definitive answers. Dr. Sheftall and her colleagues pulled data from a state-based surveillance system to better understand the characteristics of those who died and factors that may have led to their deaths.

They found that most of the Black children who died by suicide did not have a current mental health concern, but of those who did, the younger children were far more likely than the older kids to have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D. The younger kids were also more likely to have experienced problems in school or within their families.

We thank Lil’ Wayne to bring light to this important issue in our community and hopefully, this brings up more conversations to help change these statistics for the better.

If you or anyone you know may be contemplating suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. Help is here.

June 14, 2022 by Barry Anderson

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