You would possibly assume we’re heading right into a low time of yr for suicides as a result of they peak through the chilly, darkish months of winter. However, in truth, suicide peaks through the spring and early summer season.

This is only one instance of the favored beliefs round suicide that grow to be myths. Right here to unpack extra of those myths, in addition to the truths round this poorly understood topic, is Rory O’Connor, the chief of the Suicidal Behaviour Analysis Laboratory and the creator of . At the moment on the present, Rory discusses potential causes for why suicides go up within the hotter months and why males die by suicide extra typically than ladies. He explains that suicide doesn’t occur with out some warning indicators and why somebody’s improved temper is likely to be one in all them. Within the second half of the present, Rory walks us via the true causes folks transfer from having suicidal ideas to performing on them, and what works to forestall suicide.

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