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My intuition has always been that the rates are higher in otherwise "happy" countries because the people at risk feel far more isolated from the rest of the pop
by Lewisham 16y ago
My intuition has always been that the rates are higher in otherwise "happy" countries because the people at risk feel far more isolated from the rest of the populace.
- Alex3917 16y agoThese countries also have much lower rates of self-destructive behaviors, which is what most people with emotional problems in the U.S. do instead of actually killing themselves outright. If you were to count deaths from self-destructive behaviors together with suicides, the U.S. would dwarf every other country.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI think "every other country" is wildly overstating the case. Here is an article on alchohol and homicide in Russia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447353/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447353/