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New @ONS data give us, for first time, national suicide rates month by month for Covid years 2020 & 2021, compared to earlier years.
Graph shows no rise in these years overall, or any month, or any period of pandemic, including lockdown.
What can we learn from this?
Graph shows no rise in these years overall, or any month, or any period of pandemic, including lockdown.
What can we learn from this?
It may tell us something about the protective power of social cohesion, of looking out for each other, of community, with its message of acceptance & concern.
If so, we need to hang on to it. It hasn’t looked in strong supply lately.
If so, we need to hang on to it. It hasn’t looked in strong supply lately.
It may confirm something we saw after the 2008 recession, the life-saving impact of economic support - for people on benefits or in debt or fearing for their jobs & homes.
Particularly important as we head further into the cost of living crisis.
Particularly important as we head further into the cost of living crisis.
It reminds us to look at the evidence, no matter what the headlines claim.
Or the Twitter “likes”.
Or the academics who should know better.
Or the current attempt at revisionism in the media.
Or the Twitter “likes”.
Or the academics who should know better.
Or the current attempt at revisionism in the media.
Worth reading the tentative view of #suicideprevention researchers internationally as the pandemic began.
A strategic approach was needed, then as now. Public health, health care, wider Govt, charities, campaigners, media.
And evidence, not opinion, however honestly felt.
A strategic approach was needed, then as now. Public health, health care, wider Govt, charities, campaigners, media.
And evidence, not opinion, however honestly felt.
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