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re: 4750 excess suicide deaths during the Great Recession

Posted on 3/21/20 at 7:45 am to
Posted by QboveTopSecret
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Posted on 3/21/20 at 7:45 am to
Not counting the ones who lost Insurance, a yearly physical can save your life.

Great Recession tied to more than 10,000 suicides
Karen WeintraubSpecial for USA TODAY

"It's a fairly large and substantial increase over what we would have expected," said Aaron Reeves, a sociologist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford in England, who helped lead the research. "There are, broadly speaking, large mental health implications of the economic crisis that are still being felt by many people."

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Posted by momentoftruth87
Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 3/21/20 at 7:49 am to
That article also says

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The study showed that antidepressant prescription rates rose by nearly 20% in the U.K. from 2007 to 2010 – although previous research has found that antidepressant use does not have a major impact on suicide rates
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