Re:Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
by rossdavidh on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:49PM
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Well, it all depends on the exact mechanisms for how "I'm depressed" gets all the way to suicide. No question that the lockdown was depressing for a lot of people, but there's all kinds of reasons it might not (in the early months) have led to an increase in suicides, including:
- a feeling that it wasn't just you, lots of people felt this way
- a feeling that an end was in sight, unlike if you think you've just screwed up your life somehow
- an understanding that the way you were feeling was not your fault, and had an external cause, rather than being about your worth or etc.
Not saying any of these theories (guesses) are right, just suggesting there are lots of possibilities which would need to be examined to really understand what went on (and didn't) during a lockdown.
- a feeling that it wasn't just you, lots of people felt this way
- a feeling that an end was in sight, unlike if you think you've just screwed up your life somehow
- an understanding that the way you were feeling was not your fault, and had an external cause, rather than being about your worth or etc.
Not saying any of these theories (guesses) are right, just suggesting there are lots of possibilities which would need to be examined to really understand what went on (and didn't) during a lockdown.