Professor Nav Kapoor
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first heard Jan 2021
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So any change between the years here could reflect a kind of background increase in rates that has nothing to do with the pandemic.
One of the striking things about self-harm and people who have hurt themselves presenting to services is self-harm presentations decreased hugely.
So people were less likely to come to hospital having hurt themselves.
They were less likely to go to their general practitioners.
That was something like a 4%.
40% decrease in self-harm presenting to services.
Mental distress, we know from studies, people's levels of clinically significant mental distress have increased by about 10% in the early part of the pandemic.
I think the first thing to say is that, you know, it is quite early in terms of the suicide data that are available.
And sometimes there's a lag and sometimes some of the effects of the pandemic, such as economic effects, are yet to play out.
But the other thing is there may be a genuine kind of social cohesion effect at the time.
of external crises.
So we see this when we look at data for suicide rates around the time of the two world wars.
Suicide rates decreased and there's this idea that societies kind of pull together when there's an external threat.
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