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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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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Data up to May. According to this paper (preprint) however, “monthly suicide rates increased by 13% in the second wave (July to September 2020), with the magnitude greater among females (29%) and children (49%)” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.30.20184168v3 …
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The 2019 rate shows a sharp spike in September. So the slight decrease in September 2020 on the previous chart (expressed vs. three previous years) might not actually be a decrease.
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