There is now some reasonably strong evidence that non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 ("lockdowns") were associated with decreased short-term suicides in several locations in the worldhttps://twitter.com/jeremyfaust/status/1395829954256977927 …
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The other quite funny thing is that everyone takes this as an explicit argument about mental health, which it is not - suicide and mental health are linked, but not the same issue by any means
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I find this hard to accept given how I felt in March, April, May, and June of 2020.
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I think it might be. They're more concerned about being right than actually preventing suicides.
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Once people had staked their identity on suicide rates rising and such, news to the contrary would not be welcome.
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The best explanation I’ve seen is the difficulty people experienced from lockdowns does not cause the type of depression that leads to suicide. The lockdowns = suicide privileges environmental causes over people’s internal mental state. Mental illness does not work this way.
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Some people *ahem Nate* will just give a hot take saying they'll wait for more data, and then not comment when "more data" corroborates previous data. Why bother being a Bayesian if you don't evaluate the posterior?
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Figures I saw showed suicides overall down 5%, but increased among minorities which is a concern. But bad sign overall was calls to national mental health crisis line was up ~900%. I would not make a strong stance either way on this one. Not as clear cut as you make it out to be
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Can mental health be individually perceived as worse, without reaching a point of being suicidal? Perhaps everyone is just “languishing”?
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Yes. Suicide and mental health, while related, are not perfectly linked
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Suicides *decreased* 16% during peak of shelter-in-place, and 9% over first 6 months of pandemic.