• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    “diseases of despair” which includes but is not limited to suicides and overdoses has been steadily on the rise for over a decade in the U.S and so far as we know suicides reached an all-time high in 2022. -I’m betting they just haven’t collected and presented the 2023 data yet.

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      6 months ago

      Confirms what I was thinking about rates on the rise. Thanks!

      I think it’s dangerous to say that politics are causing suicides rather than “we have a mental health crisis”. A lot more reasons for previous generations of oppressed people to kill themselves , it maybe we weren’t keeping track as much then.