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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in particular. The CDC says fewer than 50% of suicide decedents had diagnosable mental illnesses, but people can’t seem to separate the two issues.https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/index.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I did some interviews with colleagues about 2 months into lockdown find out if people needed any support - spoke to 3 people who said their mental health problems has been significantly eased by being at home and having more engagement from mgrs re mental health.
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Time to (re)read Durkheim. His 1897 finding that suicide tended to decline in times of crisis was literally one of the foundation stones of sociology.
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Suicides *decreased* 16% during peak of shelter-in-place, and 9% over first 6 months of pandemic.