Post Incarceration Syndrome, is an especially serious problem for women and women advocacy groups should get involved. Women experience the classical PICS symptoms and seem to experience increased anxiety, depression, and hopelessness which lead to an increased suicide rate. As a result suicide and suicide attempts are more serious post incarceration problems for women than men. Women also often relapse back into lives of prostitution because discrimination keeps them out of the legitimate workforce and "the lifestyle" is so difficult to cope with. This triggers the hopelessness and depression from being trapped in the lifestyle that can lead to both suicide attempts and dangerous provocation of potentially violent men which I am start to call "suicide by John" (taken from the idea of "suicide by cop."
This is one of the reasons I wrote the book Straight Talk About Suicide.
Read more about the Post Incarceration Syndrome (PICS)
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