A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado
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A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado
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#2So women are now committing suicide at the same rate as men?
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#3"nearly 1 in 4 white women ages 50 to 64 is taking an antidepressant, according to federal health officials."
This is the saddest thing. My wife remarked that there was a weird sense of expectancy that if you were a white female of middle age you were expected by your peers to be taking anti-depressants.
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#4So women are now committing suicide at the same rate as men?
No. Men are still dying more than women.
But women attempt suicide more often than men. And women have started using more lethal means than they used to. And the combination - more suicide attempts, more lethal methods, is worrying.
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#5So women are now committing suicide at the same rate as men?
No, men die of suicide at 3.5x the rate of women. But there have been similar articles about the general trend of increasing suicide rates, and the highest rate being among white men. Whenever there's a gender or race break-out, there's opportunity for specific articles as people dig deeper into the data and start finding out the rates for other sub-populations.
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#6> according to a Washington Post analysis of federal health data.
I wish they'd released this.
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#7Depression is not caused by a deficiency of medications, but by a deficiency of hope, so medications cannot cure it.
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#8Depression is not caused by a deficiency of medications, but by a deficiency of hope, so medications cannot cure it.
Source.
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#9> according to a Washington Post analysis of federal health data. I wish they'd released this.
Ask them to.
EDIT: I just emailed the article author asking if they'd release the data in a Github repo [1]. Default to action.