Report: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/report-suicide-rate-in-the-united-states-just-hit-highest-point-in-75-years-9c0f6861b995

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bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 274d (1 reply)

I get why suicides have increased since covid, and now with what our governments are up to, but what happened in 2018 that caused such a high spike in suicides? I googled it and reports of a spike in 2018 come up, but none of the articles offer any attempt to explain the increase.

69420@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 273d

Personal observation with zero research: the 2018 spike among males may be correlated with the takeoff of the #metoo movement.