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Danascot

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2. It could be

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Sep 19, 2024, 07:40 PM

Sep 2024

that there are more potential suicides than in the past due to stress or depression or other causes but national suicide prevention policies may be working to tamp down potential suicides so they don't become actual suicides, so the rate of actual suicides appears to remain more level.

Just a thought.

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