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If it is a chemical imbalance only, why are there large differences in rate in different time periods in the same culture, with suicide rates hand in hand (http
by curuinor 7y ago
If it is a chemical imbalance only, why are there large differences in rate in different time periods in the same culture, with suicide rates hand in hand (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/9/e023144 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/9/e023144)? Why does the depression rate go way up during recessions and other economic phenomena (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4741013/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4741013/)? What biological-chemical thing happens during an economic recession?
- austincheney 7y agoFinancial distress is a key catalyst associated with suicidal ideations. That doesn’t mean financially distressed people are generally suicidal or even depressed. It does mean that stresses associated with finances are a frequently identified/measured trauma that can impact depressed persons who may not be clinically diagnosed as depressed. Depression is often undiagnosed and self-managed like many other mental health diseases.
- curuinor 7y agoSo it's the trauma that does it? Where's the biochemical basis of trauma? I mean, when you get hit by a car and you get shock from blood loss, you die of shock from blood loss but you also die from the car. You could solve the problem with better EMT's and blood transfusions and stuff but you could also solve the problem by having better public transit and not having cars everywhere, you know?
- austincheney 7y agoWikipedia explains this better than I could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma