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carried away by a moonlight shadow
- Aug 25, 2021
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It's not any study or anything academic, I just felt curious. I began to investigate, completely convinced that bellicose conflicts were going to be much more perdudicial for mental health than economic crises (Of course wars also bring economic crises but that's another story)... and what I found surprised me.
As seen in the graph, the pre-war era that generates a lot of uncertainty in the market and therefore some other economic bump, there were many more suicides than in the years of the First World War (1914-1918), in which in the United States there was a great economic boom. Then the number of suicides skyrockets with the Stock Exchange Crash of 1929 while in the Second World War (1939-1945) they begin to fall until they stabilize at levels reached even in recent years.
The Pre-WWII was a time of great economic boom for the United States that was even the true precursor to get out of the crisis. In 1943 US joins the war and the numbers skyrocket from there but not reaching figures much higher than at the beginning of the century
Figures much higher than those of the Post War are not reached, perhaps only at the time of the crisis of the 80s (1974-1975)... They begin to decrease from here reaching the lowest figures just with the bubble.com (1997-2000) that was a time of great boom until the recession burst and began. They have not stopped increasing since then until recent years where we are about to surpass figures of the Second World War.
This graph also ends with the myth that "When you give more visibility to something, you increase it"... it is an interesting paradox that says that when you try to fight against something by giving it more importance in society, you only increase the problem... For example: Talk more about suicide and normalize the subject in movies, series, television. It makes more people and especially children know the subject and are interested in it.
But as you can see in the graph, a century ago the number of suicides per 100,000 inhabitants was almost twice as high and the subject was much more taboo and less talked about than it is today (Suicide was considered, at least in Western culture, as a theme of women housewives and weak people)
As seen in the graph, the pre-war era that generates a lot of uncertainty in the market and therefore some other economic bump, there were many more suicides than in the years of the First World War (1914-1918), in which in the United States there was a great economic boom. Then the number of suicides skyrockets with the Stock Exchange Crash of 1929 while in the Second World War (1939-1945) they begin to fall until they stabilize at levels reached even in recent years.
The Pre-WWII was a time of great economic boom for the United States that was even the true precursor to get out of the crisis. In 1943 US joins the war and the numbers skyrocket from there but not reaching figures much higher than at the beginning of the century
Figures much higher than those of the Post War are not reached, perhaps only at the time of the crisis of the 80s (1974-1975)... They begin to decrease from here reaching the lowest figures just with the bubble.com (1997-2000) that was a time of great boom until the recession burst and began. They have not stopped increasing since then until recent years where we are about to surpass figures of the Second World War.
This graph also ends with the myth that "When you give more visibility to something, you increase it"... it is an interesting paradox that says that when you try to fight against something by giving it more importance in society, you only increase the problem... For example: Talk more about suicide and normalize the subject in movies, series, television. It makes more people and especially children know the subject and are interested in it.
But as you can see in the graph, a century ago the number of suicides per 100,000 inhabitants was almost twice as high and the subject was much more taboo and less talked about than it is today (Suicide was considered, at least in Western culture, as a theme of women housewives and weak people)
