Lockdowns have mostly not been associated with a large increase in suicide rates: a thread of evidence (CW: suicide, mental health) 
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2. Victoria, Australia Suicide rates have remained steady despite the longest lockdown in the world https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/forms-resources/publications?combine=&field_audience_target_id=All&field_publication_type_target_id=4392&year=2020 …pic.twitter.com/53pXq4U590
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3. England, UK No real variation in suicide rates in the period studied including pre/during/post lockdown http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=51861 …pic.twitter.com/9Y2rZpWW1r
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4. Massachusetts, U.S. No evidence of a large increase in suicides during lockdown https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215343v1.full.pdf …pic.twitter.com/4sOOg7hTYW
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5. Japan An interesting counterfactual - no 'lockdown' implemented, and no rise in suicides during the state of emergency, but a sharp increase later in the yearpic.twitter.com/LJEnKeDqe6
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6. New South Wales, Australia No major change in suicide rates in 2020 compared to 2019, or during lockdown (April-June)pic.twitter.com/uEpU2cA25K
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7. Japan (again) No evidence of an increase in suicides during school closures in children/adolescents https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213420303355 …pic.twitter.com/7hz4XRBMuT
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8. Peru Suicides (and homicides) dropped during lockdown, particularly among women https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743520303625 …pic.twitter.com/ntRfHHQrxw
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Important to point out here that this DOESN'T MEAN that lockdowns/government interventions have not impacted mental health, merely that they have mostly not been associated with a massive rise in suicides as was initially feared
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It also doesn't mean that lockdowns definitely aren't causing individual suicides, but it does make it likely that if these are occurring they are being counterbalanced by suicides that didn't happen
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Also important to point out that this certainly does not exclude the pandemic generally causing more suicides. It just shows that none of the evidence to date supports the fears of a huge increase in suicide associated with lockdown that continue to be constantly given air
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9. Another datapoint to add - Saskatchewan, Canada. Only data up to the end of October, but still about 10% fewer suicides than you'd expect in 2020 overallpic.twitter.com/z84Lc9g12c
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