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leads to depression hence their sky high suicide rates. That's a myth. Finland's suicide rate is basically the same as that in the US, and Norway, Sweden and D
by dagw 8y ago
leads to depression hence their sky high suicide rates.
That's a myth. Finland's suicide rate is basically the same as that in the US, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark all have a significantly lower rates.
- tokai 8y agoIt is an American myth? I have seen it numerous times here on HN, and always found it weird since it is very clearly false if you look up the data.
- eesmith 8y agoI know that Eisenhower (US president) helped popularize that view. Doing a search now found https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?artikel=5924063 https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?artikel=5924063
- dagw 8y agoIt was kind of true (at least more true) in the mid to later 80's. However since then suicide rates have dropped dramatically in both Finland and Sweden while having gone up in the US.
- buboard 8y agoi mean compared to the poor european south https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/7825811/IMG+graph+Suicide.png/46a56bb9-a564-4484-89dd-74c39500fd68?t=1494924333122 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/7825811/IMG+... US is a huge country to compare as a whole https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml