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Bah! The William Faulkner Society says otherwise.
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But other societies say otherwise...otherwise.
Though I came here to admit that I couldn't find any of them. I do know that depression peaks on the holidays, but depression and suicide are two different things.
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It is, however, true that people who are depressed are more likely to attempt suicide than those who are not. It therefore follows, if more people are depressed during the holiday season the number of suicide attempts (and "successful" suicides, if you can call it that) will rise as well.
I imagine that there are some suicides connected with almost any holiday you could name, but Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are fraught with a great deal of universally recognized emotional baggage. The number of suicides prompted by Groundhog day angst, on the other hand, is probably not even measurable by ordinary statistical methods.
I do know that depression peaks on the holidays, but depression and suicide are two different things.
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