Posted on 04/30/2020 8:15:17 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Per a report from the Orange County Register, the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Center in Los Angeles received 22 calls to their hotline regarding the Wuhan virus in February.
However, after a month passed, the number of calls surged to 1,800.
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It’s the isolation and panic, not the disease.
Sounds like lonely people with issues to begin with.
yes, snowflakes not able to adjust to anything outside of what they pretended the norm was.
I think we have a brittle society and every day there are many, many people who are right on the edge. That’s what “normal” is.
The news coverage of the pandemic and the economic news of the “fix” can easily push a lot of people over the edge.
People need to understand that shutting down the economy kills people and maybe more than Covid. It is not save lives or not but shut down and kill people another way. Suicides are already the #10 leading cause of death in the U.S., almost 48,000. It will go over 100,000 thanks directly to shut down.
Every 1% increase in unemployment results in thousands more committing suicide. ( medical journal Lancet). I can tell you that suicide intervention centers are getting more calls in 72 hours than we usually see in 3 months. For a concise analysis see the following excerpt below that estimates an increase from suicide and drugs of 70,000 this is from https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/13/shutdown_could_kill_more_americans_than_covid-19_142934.html
No model or guesswork is required to foresee the deadly impact. Job losses cause extreme suffering. Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities deaths of despair.
Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment. Health economist Michael French from the University of Miami and a co-author found a “significant association between job loss” and binge drinking and alcoholism.
The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing and drinking. Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63% higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in Social Science & Medicine.
Layoff-related deaths are likely to far outnumber the 60,400 coronavirus deaths predicted through August.
They’ll count them all as covid deaths.
BINGO if someone isn’t around to hold their hand they go into panic mode.
In the land of fruits and nuts, this is hardly surprising. It doesn’t take much to push them over the edge.
Suicide is just one aspect of this. Alcoholism, domestic violence, crime, homelessness and so many more negatives will come out of this.
“I think we have a brittle society and every day there are many, many people who are right on the edge. That’s what “normal” is.”
This thing is proving to be quite a stress test for societies all over the world, and the test ain’t over yet. In fact if things don’t start getting back to some sort of normalncy the worst may be yet to come.
I hear the footsteps of the “gods of the Copybook Headings”.
Really insensitive comments by both of you. This is a serious problem right now for many people. The isolation, worry, anxiety and fear about jobs, bills, payments, isolation can be overwhelming for many. This is a much more serious problem than the overhyped Wuhan Flu.
Did any of them talk to Arnold Rimmer?
I saw snowflakes start making suicidal ideations on Navy ships within weeks of deploying. It was a ticket home and out of the Navy. Weak minds that we were better off without.
Fortunately, we don’t have to worry, as when Trump mentioned suicide as a reason we had to open up the economy in late March, just as when he praised hydroxychloroquine, “experts” lined up to discredit the idea. So with a single comment at a news conference, Trump eliminated the risk of suicide. It’s like he has super powers. /s
You can call it insensitive, I call it accurate. Being politically correct is not required here. It’s been a little over 30 days. If people fall apart that quickly, without even knowing if there is even a reason to fall apart, well that just says it all. I’m not gonna pretend it’s normal or noble.
......” The isolation, worry, anxiety and fear about jobs, bills, payments, isolation can be overwhelming for many”.....
Many people who have suicidal thoughts now during this crisis had them even before this. And often prior depression issues are the greatest reason for 50% of the people.
Further It’s not a new problem for them, it’s that everyone else is dealing with their own problems now for the disruption in their own life which their responsibility is to steady their own ship.
It’s not less sensitivity, it’s people are busy rowing their own canoes, so to speak,...thus hot lines are busier then usual for those who generally are suicidal prone.
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