Humbug

[trog]

I hear Labour are planning to change the 12 days of Christmas to the 12 months of Christmas in an effort to raise the spirits of the nation and reduce self harming and suicide rates which will lower the burden on the NHS so funding can be reduced and used elsewhere.

 

[HugeMaximum]

And the Christmas channel nonsense starts again

Christmas, Shchristmash!

 

[Owen Smith]

I hear Labour are planning to change the 12 days of Christmas to the 12 months of Christmas in an effort to raise the spirits of the nation and reduce self harming and suicide rates which will lower the burden on the NHS so funding can be reduced and used elsewhere.

Christmas is actually a high suicide rate period due to people who have no-one deciding that Christmas isn't a good time to be on your own.

 

[Luke]

Christmas is actually a high suicide rate period due to people who have no-one deciding that Christmas isn't a good time to be on your own.

Suicide Rates Across Months of the Year: Debunking the Christmas Myth and Focusing on UK Data - Harmless

By Caroline Harroe (Harmless CEO) Suicide is a complex issue with multiple contributing factors, and its occurrence across the year can be influenced by various factors. While there is a common perception of an increase in suicides during the Christmas holiday season, data from the UK Office for...

harmless.org.uk

 

[Black Hole]

That's not very informative. Where's the actual data?

 

[Owen Smith]

That's not very informative. Where's the actual data?

Yes, if December being bad for suicides is a myth I want to see data.

 

[Luke]

That's not very informative. Where's the actual data?

An example of one study
"Suicidality and mood: the impact of trends, seasons, day of the week, and time of day on explicit and implicit cognitions among an online community sample" in
Nature Translational Psychiatry published on May 12, 2023 (Volume 13, article number 190)

My understanding this is consistent with previous studies that actual suicide rates and completions peak during the spring and early summer months (April through June) and are lower in December, but that study included moods as well as suicides.

 

[trog]

I would have thought deletion of this nonsense was more suitable rather than giving it a thread of its own.

Edit. It seems I have the power to do the deleting even though I did not create or title the thread "Christmas" ( now titled Humbug by me). Out of respect for the other posters in this thread I will leave it till tomorrow to see it any of them object to me binning it.

 

[EEPhil]

I would have thought deletion of this nonsense was more suitable rather than giving it a thread of its own.

Same with all the chocolate puns.

 

[trog]

Same with all the chocolate puns.

Are you still raging over your Aura Ebenezer?

 

[Black Hole]

My understanding this is consistent with previous studies that actual suicide rates and completions peak during the spring and early summer months (April through June) and are lower in December, but that study included moods as well as suicides.

One would have thought it simple enough to publish a rate vs. week or month chart (in a learned paper), then it would be there for all to see instead of making vague handwaving statements.