I'm always a bit baffled that any increase "suicide during COVID" is supposedly something that can be neatly blamed on lockdown measures. Isn't it at least possible that people could be committing suicide due to reasons that are directly causally connected to COVID - whether that is fear of illness/death, a sense of the world ending, death/serious illness of a close relative or friend and/or having been sick with COVID themselves?

The last possibility seems particularly unnerving given how many people have had COVID and the fact that there do seem to be a good number of 'long-haulers' (some of whom report psychological effects).

I don't know if there's a good way of quantifying this, but the idea that every suicide during COVID is 100% casually connected to lockdown measures (or the knock-on consequences of lockdown, such as job losses) seems like an article of faith.