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Iceseic t1_isd88xu wrote

But the one with suicide rate below the world average is mostly low gdp country tho. Afghanistan, bangladesh, myanmar, libya, bhutan, etc. While on the other hand US and other developed eastern europe have higher gdp than world standard but also higher suicide rate than the world avg

And those high suicide low gdp countries looks like more of africa problem than economic problem, so can we really use gdp as matrix?

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arejay007 t1_isdydb1 wrote

Reporting probably has an impact in some of those lower GDP countries.

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_CHIFFRE t1_isfwadj wrote

and in many cultures/religions suicide is a huge no-no and a bigger topic, like Turkey which has a low rate despite people being stressed out for all kinds of reasons, he mentioned 3 countries that are majority muslim so in only 6-7 countries where muslims make up atleast 50% of the population the rate is above world average.

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sukkibds t1_islgvdd wrote

Your story fits with the research that suggests if you make suicide less convenient, the rate drops. I'm really happy you hung in there and are doing better!

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