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CDC: One quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during pandemic (politico.com)
9 points by xoxoy on Aug 15, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



I'm not sure what the relevance of a statistic on "contemplating" suicide is. If you ask adults, I'd expect the number who would say they ever "contemplated" suicide when they were younger would be close to 100%.

I remember in the 80's, it was common for high schools to claim that up to 50% of students thought about suicide. It's one of the reasons there was an explosion in in-school counseling services and posters and PSA's on radio, etc...

There was an article in the local newspaper a few months ago stating that in the months that followed the start of lockdown, suicides in my state were down about 40%.


The relevance is this period in time is majorly fucked up, and will fuck people up for years.


I'm curious how this compares to normal, and other crises like 2008.


One quarter of which group?




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