Suicide increase linked to economic downturns

Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

The rate of suicides rises during times of economic hardship and declines in periods of prosperity, with the association strongest for working adults ages 25 to 54, CDC study finds.Everyone is familiar with stories of businessmen jumping to their deaths from window ledges during the Great Depression. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that those stories, sometimes viewed as apocryphal, have a strong basis in fact: The rate of suicides rises during times of economic hardship and declines in periods of prosperity.

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