At present, one in every fifteen people approach a doctor for psychiatric counseling, who is either a software professional or working in call centers. The number of young techies who approach them for counseling has increased tremendously in the past one year.

Recently this year, a 31 year old software engineer Santosh Sarade, who had resigned from Infosys committed suicide after slipping deeper into depression following the loss of his job. He committed suicide when his request to re join the company was denied by the company. The police told that Sarade worked with two top IT companies earlier and had joined Infosys. His health problems were affecting his ability to work and he was also been treated for depression, but his performance at work was being hampered and he was asked to resign from the company. He was worried about his families’ future.

Techies from Infosys like, 32 year old Smita Rao, who worked there as an Assistant Manager, hanged herself last week and 23 year old Sahithi Vyasam, who commited suicide for various reasons.

From Wipro, few techies committed suicide like; 27 year old Prince Singla committed suicide last year, 23 year old Lakshmi Nair, 28 year old Vishal Yadav had committed suicide in the year 2009.

A techie named Bikash Kumar Sharma, a senior network analyst in HCL had committed suicide in the year 2009.