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I'm really sorry to hear that. I don't think anyone is suggesting suicide is no longer an issue- it most definitely is. However, anecdata is not a great metric for measuring large society-level changes.

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Thank you. Yes you are right it is not the best, but then is a sample of a short period of time at the start of a pandemic indicative of the entire pandemic. The true impact upon suicide is hard to really measure in such and certainly the only true picture will be a few years from now and having a few years worth of data. I dare say be many latent ones down to the economic impacts and other knock-on effects.

[ADD] I looked and in the UK the rate has increased and been noted that that the aspect that coroner’s inquests initially at the start of the pandemic had been suspended due to caution in contamination and spread as we was still learning about the virus. An aspect that I'm sure mirror's in many countries globally.

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